The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) is alarmed by the reported
foiled terrorist attack on its presidential candidate in the 2023 election and former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, and other sensitive
locations in Yola, Adamawa State.
The PDP insisted that by the
confession of the arrested assailants, the plot has the pawmarks
of a sponsored attempt on the life
of Atiku Abubakar, ostensibly
by forces, who are unsettled by
his bid to retrieve his mandate at
the Presidential Election Petition
Court (PEPC).
PDP, in a statement by its
spokesman, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, said that the party believes that
the intent of the sponsors of the
evil plot is to silence its presidential
candidate, massacre innocent Nigerians and cause chaos, confusion
and anarchy in the polity.
The PDP asked: “Is this foiled
attack on Atiku Abubakar and
sensitive locations in Yola, Adamawa connected to the recent
APC’s threats of chaos and anarchy in the country, if the PEPC
upholds the clear provisions of
Section 134 of the Constitution of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria
1999 (as amended) with regard
to the mandatory and statutory
requirements for which a candidate in a presidential election can
be declared winner?
“Could it also be a plan to orchestrate a sense of insecurity in
the country, starting in Adamawa State, the home state of our
presidential candidate so as to
justify the imposition of a state
of emergency in Adamawa State
as a precursor to a declaration of
a state of emergency throughout
the country?”
PDP, has, however charged the
Inspector General of Police to take
the lead provided by the confession
of the assailants to track down
their sponsors and bring them to
book in the interest of the security,
unity and wellbeing of the nation.
“The Federal Government has
a duty and obligation to Nigerians
and indeed, the whole world to ensure that the perpetrators of these
dastardly act and their sponsors
are brought to book. This particular investigation is important to
the country because of the scope
and dimension of the attempted
attack,” the party said.
