POLITICS: PDP Gives Condition For Credible Election In 2019.

The People’s Democratic Party has raised another alarm concerning the 2019 elections, saying that it cannot be peaceful, credible and fair as long as Amina Zakari remains a member of the Presidential Election Coalition Committee.

The main opposition Party also called on the National Peace Committee, the Chief Justice of the Federation and the international community to call President Muhammadu Buhari to order.

Kola Ologbondiyan its National Publicity Secretary and Director of Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO) stated this on Sunday in a press conference at its Presidential Campaign Headquarters, Abuja.

The media director stressed that the Presidency has been overheating the polity which has become a threat to peaceful election, alleging that the appointment of Amina Zakari as the Chairman of the subcommittee on result collation justifies the earlier outcry by the PDP that President Buhari and INEC are unlawfully and assiduously working for the return of Buhari.

He however, warned that there would be no peaceful election with the inglorious role assigned to Zakari who is a blood relation of President Buhari.

“No Free and Fair Election with Amina Zakari In INEC. Already, Nigerians across the board are livid with anger over the foisting of Mrs. Amina Zakari, President Buhari’s relation, to head the collation of Presidential election results.

He further said that, “President Buhari’s insistence on having his relation in charge of collation of Presidential election results is completely provocative, a direct affront to the sensibilities of Nigerians and express invitation to crisis of epic proportion, which is capable of truncating the entire electoral process and derailing our hard-earned democracy.”

The party also frowned at Zakari appointment and the draconian role she is playing in INEC.

“The world is aware that majority of Nigerians have rejected Mrs. Amina Zakari. Over 90 percent of the political parties in the election, as well as major political and socio-cultural groups across the country have also called for her resignation from INEC, yet President Buhari is insisting on her stay in the commission.

“Our party is aware of plots by the Buhari Presidency to use Amina Zakari, who has been mentioned as part of those involved in the rigging of 2018 governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states, to plunge the 2019 general elections into controversies, truncate the flow of results and even render elections in some critical states inconclusive, to pave way for allocation of fictitious votes to President Buhari and the APC” Ologbondiyan alleged.

On the need for the intervention of Civil Societies and International community,  the party said,  “We want the National Peace Committee and the entire world to know that as long as Amina Zakari is in INEC, a peaceful election is not guaranteed because she has the mandate to abuse the process and this will not be accepted by Nigerians.

“The PPCO therefore calls on the National Peace Committee to immediately speak out on the impropriety of having Amina Zakari in INEC as well as insist on her removal so that we can have a credible and peaceful Presidential election.”

It added: “Part of the plot is to charge such individuals before certain compromised judicial officers, in various states, who have been briefed to detain, silence and put such opposition figures and CSO members out of circulation until after elections are concluded.

“Particular cases at hand are those of our Presidential Campaign Director on Civil Societies, Senator Dino Melaye, who is being hounded for his outspokenness against the misrule of the Buhari Presidency, as well as Civil Rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, who is widely believed to have been held down in prison because of his scathing criticism against the violations of the rights of Nigerians by the Buhari Presidency.

“This is a clear attempt to return our nation to the nightmares of the 1984 when draconian leaders forcefully subjugated innocent Nigerians under the grips of military Decree 2 and we urge the CJN to save our nation by insulating the judiciary from this ignoble scheme” , the PDP said, urging President Buhari to tame his desperation for power.