Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last week’s election, has presented a six-point demand to t
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last week’s election, has presented a six-point demand to the Buahri-led government. The demands were presented to the former Head of State and Chairman of the National Peace Committee, (NPC) Geneneral Abdulsalam Abubakar (rtd) and his team, made up of Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Bishop Kukah and Rev. Fr Atta Barkindo, for onward presentation to Buhari.
Yesterday, Abubakar led members of the committee to a meeting with Atiku and his running mate, Peter Obi in Abuja. The NPC is expected to meet President Muhammadu Buhari government with the following six-point demands:
*That accreditation of voters should take place before voting in subsequent elections.
*That there should be no deployment of the military 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.
* Demilitarisarion of subsequent polls.
A source at the meeting disclosed that Atiku warned that tensions are building up in the land. He informed the group that the election of Feb 23 was the worst in 20 years since the country returned to democratic rule and that it was marked by brazen rigging with no consideration to the will of the people.
It was learnt that Gen. Abdusalam and his team pleaded with the PDP flag bearer to avoid anything that could jeopardise the nation’s peaceful co-existence.
