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APC Petitions Police Boss Over Fayose, PDP Death Wish On General Buhari

Rotimi Amaechi
Governor Rotimi Amaechi

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Organisation has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba over what it called “the PDP morbid advertisement” sponsored by Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and published on the cover pages of two national dailies of 19th January, 2015.
In the petition signed by the Governor of Rivers State and Director General of the Campaign, Rotimi Amaechi, the APC Presidential Campaign condemned PDP and Fayose for portraying its candidate, General Buhari as a dead man walking to scare Nigerians from voting for him in the February 14 election.
According to the petition, the portrayal of Buhari as a likely to die in office just like past northern leaders such as Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, General Sani Abacha and General Murtala Mohammed was “morbid and reckless” and that such irresponsible political advert is not only “in bad taste, but also capable of undermining law and order in the country.”
The strongly-worded petition said that insinuating death for a man who is still alive based on unscientific logic or prediction is capable of causing a breach of the peace across the country.
The APC Campaign petition also drew the attention of the IGP to the fact that Fayose’s advert violated the spirit and letter of the Ambassador Kofi Annan initiative which, which had Nigerian political parties and their presidential candidates sign a peace accord.
It therefore urged the IGP to investigate the origin of Fayose’s “sinister and inhuman”  advert and call him to order with a view to preventing a repeat of such provocative publication in the interest of peace.
The APC Campaign said that copies of the petition have been sent to the Department of State Security (DSS), Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) and The Sun and The Punch newspapers.
Meanwhile, APC has said that it prefers not to respond to the provocations of Fani-Kayode, but rather engage him on issues that have the potential to bring the greatest good for the greatest number of Nigerians.
Meanwhile the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Mallam Garba Shehu has described as laughable, the PDP’s hold-on to the educational qualifications of the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, even when the matter has been exhaustively laid to rest.
Reacting to his counterpart in PDP, Femi Fani-Kayode’s statement asking General Buhari to report himself to Police for perjury, Garba Shehu said: “It is not our desire in the APC presidential campaign organisation to join an individual who has a record of talking to please the moment on any petty issue.  At some point in the recent past, it was convenient for Fani-Kayode to say this of the APC and its leaders: ‘What Nigerians need now is to join hands with the APC leaders, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari and Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu to move the nation forward.’ Today, a Fani-Kayode sees no desecration in recanting that same position, just to satisfy his convenience.
“The APC and its candidate are in this presidential campaign to discuss issues that will improve the standard of living of Nigerians and ensure that the people of this country are properly secured. Whenever the PDP and its presidential campaign spokesman feel ready to join us on this noble path, we will not be willing to join them on petty issues.”
He noted that these distractions are being promoted in order to provide a blanket cover over the shortcomings of the Jonathan administration in the areas of security, employment, war against corruption and infrastructure.
“Nigerians need no telling that all these distractions and provocations by Jonathan, the PDP and their cohorts are aimed at ensuring that they escape scrutiny over their score card marked by insecurity, unemployment and rampant corruption.”

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