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The Buhari Vanguard on Monday alleged plot to assassinate the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Presidency.
Chairman of the group Comrade Jasper Azuatalam said in a statement that the unfolding political events preceding the 2015 general elections in Nigeria were “worrisome due to the dangerous dimensions introduced to the civil order, the show of desperation and resolution to keep power by all means.”
It said: “We express fear that some people may be targeting to assassinate Gen Muhammadu Buhari and turn round to claim that it is their prophecy fulfilled. We have not forgotten that late last year, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari narrowly escaped death when his convoy was attacked by a suicide bomber two days after he accused the Presidency of not doing enough to ensure the security of lives and properties of Nigerians. President Jonathan set up and inquiry into the attack, but we have not heard anything about the inquiry till date.”
The statement also said: “We recall that there were general elections in Nigeria in 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011 but there was no time we witnessed what we are witnessing today. In the past few months, leaders of the PDP and Presidency have sponsored advertorial on national dailies predicting that Gen. Muhammadu Buhari will die and wishing him all sorts of evil, including untimely death.
“The spokesperson of the President Jonathans 2015 campaign has severely turned into a prophet of doom by prophesying the death and incapacitation of Gen Muhammadu Buhari. They have forged false medical reports claiming that Gen Buhari has a terminal sickness. They have spread rumours of death and incapacitation about Gen Muhammadu Buhari when there is no sign of fever in Buhari.”
Azuatalam said: “One cannot but imagine why the Presidency and the PDP is trying to convince Nigerians that Gen. Buhari cannot live up to four years if elected president of Nigeria this year. The Presidency and PDP have publicly announced that the fate of Umaru Musa Yar’adua will befall Gen. Buhari. The latest is that they have started predicting those who will take over office from Gen. Buhari, if he is elected as President of Nigeria and dies like they have predicted.”
He said his group cannot close their eyes and pretend that they do not see danger, adding that the suspect that the PDP and the Presidency must be up to something sinister and may just be watering the ground for a soft landing when it is finally executed.
Source: Daily Trust
