The Buhari/Osinbajo Support Organisations in the South West has alleged that the pockets of anti-Jega protests in some parts of the country were being sponsored by the Presidency as part of its hidden agenda to truncate the current democratic process.
The All Progressives Congress (APC) group said “those who have been protesting are drawn from the groups sympathetic to the re-election of the incumbent President and investigations have revealed that they are being sponsored and financed by the Presidency”.
Coordinator of the group, Femi Oluwafunmilade, equally dismissed the purported endorsement of the
candidature of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Goodluck Jonathan, in the South West, describing such as wild imagination.
The group argued that there was never a forum where such a deal was struck to make Jonathan Yoruba candidate for the March 28 Presidential election, describing the combination of Buhari/Osinbajo as historic in the annals of Nigerian politics, being the first time the core-Yoruba political group would align with the core-Northern political group.
The group’s coordinator therefore urged the public to ignore the alleged adoption of Jonathan as Yoruba candidate in the forthcoming Presidential election, stressing that no amount of blackmail or intimidation would stop Muhammadu Buhari from taking over the leadership of the country come March 28.
He called on Nigerians, particularly, APC members to stand firm and refuse to be intimidated or dragged into political violence and to embrace the use of card reader for the forthcoming election, being a panacea for acceptable election result to avoid chaos and electoral malpractices.
According to him, “the use of the instrument would facilitate easy identification of genuine voters and reduce fake voter’s card at polling booths, which is why we frown at the PDP organised protest against the use of the card reader. No cogent reasons have been adduced against its usage by the protesters”.
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