IMPOSE TRAVEL BAN ON BUHARI AFTER MAY 29 – PDP TELLS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the international community to impose visa ban and other travel restrictions on President Muhammadu Buhari regarding his comments on the 2023 elections, saying he was gloating over Nigeria’s worst election in recent memory.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, gave this statement at a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, in response to President Buhari’s claims that the opposition lost the February 25 Presidential elections to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was due to overconfidence and lack of strategy.
PDP accused the President of attempting to bully the judiciary, which is currently handling electoral petitions, into giving legitimacy to a clearly flawed election, asking that the sanctions be extended to all those involved. in manipulating the outcome of the 2023 elections.
Buhari said it in the State House when he received the Progressive Governors Forum led by its Chairman, Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State.
Buhari had said that PDP “were already telling their foreign backers that they would defeat the APC.”
He claimed that the APC “blended confidence with caution, worked hard and won. Now, their overconfidence is creating more problems for the opposition than anyone else.”
Reacting today in Abuja, PDP said it did not lose the presidential election as claimed by Buhari.
According to Ologunagba, “We are not willing to surrender the mandate freely given to our party by the people irrespective of the threats, bullying and manipulation by the APC-led administration.
“Having clearly undermined democracy in Nigeria, the PDP calls on the International Community to accordingly impose sanctions, including visa ban and travel restrictions, on President Buhari and his family immediately he vacates office on May 29.
“This demand for sanction is in line with President Buhari’s request on February 17, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium, wherein he called on the European Union (EU) to impose ‘weighty sanctions’ on those engaged in ‘unconstitutional change of governments’ as well as those influencing the ‘process and outcomes of elections’.
“The PDP also demands an open investigation into the roles played by President Buhari in the undermining of democracy in Nigeria in the 2019 and 2023 Presidential elections.”
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