Addressing newsmen on Sunday, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Hon. Debo Ologunagba tasked the commission to resist intimidation from any quarters.
This is even as the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation tasks Tinubu, to come out boldly and defend his reported link to the whopping sum of $460,000 he forfeited to the United States rather than hiding behind a finger and sending his media aides to attack other Nigerians.
Ologunagba said: “We are very hopeful. What we decide to do as a party, we don’t consult you, we don’t tell you. When we started the case against Osun, we didn’t tell you, right?
“So, we will look at the issue and take decisions and actions based on the exigencies of the times, the requirement and the need to protect our constitution and our electoral process. So, you leave that us.”
Specifically, on what the party will do in regard to legal action, the party Spokesman said, “every option is on the table. And so, I will leave it like that. We will study it and any appropriate action that needs to be taken, it will be taken. Like I said to you, every option is on the table.”
Ologunagba further said: ‘It is no longer news that the Presidential Candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is irredeemably and hopelessly ineligible to contest the February 2023 Presidential election having been reportedly indicted and subjected to criminal forfeiture judgement for a narcotic related offence by a United States Court in Northern Illinois.
“Nigerians are however appalled by the lame attempt by the APC Presidential Campaign which, after admitting that there was a $460,000 drug money criminal forfeiture judgment against accounts traced to the APC Presidential Candidate, is now desperately trying to pull a wool over the eyes of the Nigerians people and our democratic institutions.
Seeing that it is technically out of the Presidential contest and further distraught because it cannot also field candidates at all levels in the 2023 general elections due to its illegal and unconstitutional congresses, the APC has resorted to unleashing hoodlums to attack PDP Presidential Campaign rallies and other innocent Nigerians going about their legitimate endeavours as witnessed in Kaduna and Borno States, in a bid to trigger a crisis and scuttle the elections.”
Disclosing that while the PDP is prepared for the 2023 general elections, the APC is busy scheming to create tension, induce violence, frustrate the conduct of the 2023 general elections and derail “our democratic process, having realized that it does not have an eligible Presidential Candidate for the polls
The plan of the APC is to instil fear in the citizenry, disorganize and weaken other political parties, frighten, hamstring and immobilize INEC from conducting the 2023 general elections.”
Quoting sections of the nation’s Constitution that knocked out Tinubu from the race, Ologunagba said, “the APC must note that its schemes, denials, threats and resort to violence cannot help Asiwaju Tinubu. By the provision of Section 137 (1) (d) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) Asiwaju Tinubu is not eligible to contest the Presidential election in Nigeria.
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