Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last week’s election, has sought the Federal Government to withdraw the military from the Governorship/House of Assembly elections slated for March 9.
“Deployment of the military was unconstitutional and in breach of Supreme Court judgment,” this formed one of the six-point demand presented to General Abdulsalam Abubakar (rtd), the former Head of State and Chairman of the National Peace Committee, (NPC).
Top on the demand was unfreezing of opposition politicians’ bank accounts.
Gen. Abubakar led members of the committee to a meeting with Atiku and his running mate, Mr. Peter Obi in Abuja yesterday night. The NPC is expected to meet President Muhammadu Buhari government with the demands.
Other demands by Atiku were:
*That accreditation of voters should take place before voting in subsequent elections.
* That INEC should open its back end server to all participating parties.
*That there should be a release of all politicians detained illegally by FG.
*That resultantly, a lot of malpractices between the INEC officers, the ruling party and the military took place to undermine the votes/voters of the PDP.
*That there was collaboration between INEC and FG to undermine the sanctity of the votes of the people.
*That this is the worst election in 20 years. No improvement from 2015.
A source at the meeting stated that Atiku “warned that tensions are building up in the land.”
NPC team included Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Bishop Kukah and Rev. Fr Atta Barkindo.
