PDP not scared by Buhari’s popularity – GLGP

A pro-Peoples Democratic Party group, the Goodluck Lagos Grassroot
Project, has said that the ruling party is not frightened by the
candidature of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate,
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.
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The GLGP said that PDP and its supporters would not be carried away by
the propaganda which the APC had built around Buhari's candidacy in
preparation for the rescheduled general elections.
Though the group's chairman, Alhaji Mufutau Babalola, said he did not
have confidence in the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral
Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, he told a source on Thursday that the
postponement of the general elections to March 28 and April 11 was
taken in the interest of the country.
Babalola said, "APC and its presidential candidate cannot bamboozle us
with mindless propaganda; we know the party very well and if anybody
thinks we are apprehensive of Buhari, it is because we know what he
can do to the country. We know that he will draw the country backward.
"Buhari ruled Nigeria for about 20 months and we knew what he did. He
passed retroactive laws to kill people. We also knew the kind of
corruption that was committed under him as the head of state. When he
was PTF chairman, he out-sourced a contract to African Project
Consortium. The owner of the company was Buhari's in-law and he got a
contract of about N181bn.
"After he left PTF, it was discovered that N25bn was misappropriated
and the day a committee was to begin investigating the misappropriated
funds, the owner of the company died."
Babalola, however, said the group supported the postponement of the
elections because Jega had manipulated the process.
He accused the electoral body of failure to distribute the permanent
voter cards in the PDP strongholds such as Oshodi, Isolo, Alimosho
areas of Lagos State.
Babalola said, "In areas where there are concentration of
non-indigenes in Lagos State, INEC sold the PVCs of the people of the
areas to the APC and the party chieftains destroyed them when they
realised that the non-indigenes are tired of their party.
"The APC knows that the non-indigenes are a major factor in deciding
election victory in Lagos State and most of them are PDP supporters.
So, the APC leaders collected the non-indigenes' PVCs by proxy and
destroyed them, that is why Lagos State has 38 per cent PVCs
collection rate. Jega should be made to explain why such practice is
allowed."
But the APC spokesperson in Lagos State, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, dismissed
the allegation that the party collected and destroyed the PVCs of
non-indigenes.
Igbokwe said the PDP and its supporters raised the allegation because
of their desperation for power.
"It is the PDP that is using the opportunity provided by the
postponement of the elections to mobilise money to buy PVCs for the
purpose of rigging the elections.
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