Buhari Issues Ultimatum To PDP Over Accusation Of Backing Boko Haram.
Muhammadu Buhari has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to take back its accusation linking the former head of state with the Boko Haram insurgency.
Buhari has demanded an unreserved public apology from the ruling party otherwise he will start legal actions against it.
"To support his claim, Mr. Metuh engaged in twisted logic and outright distortion – which he called facts – in which he said that I, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, beckoned on my 'supporters to go on lynching spree' should I lose the 2011 presidential election, as a result of which 'an unprecedented violence broke out claiming the lives of hundreds of innocent people'," Buhari, one of the chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC), said this in statement he signed in Kaduna on Thursday.
He said this "grave accusation" was unfounded and aimed at destroying his political standing and that of the APC.
"Firstly, it is public knowledge that Boko Haram as a terror organization long preceded the 2011 presidential elections. My utterances or lack of them on the 2011 presidential election could not therefore have created nor sustained the Boko Haram insurgency."
"Secondly, the PDP Government of President Goodluck Jonathan constituted the Sheikh Ahmed Lemu Panel of Inquiry to investigate and report on the post-election violence in some parts of the country. ... Nowhere in that Report ... was I mentioned in the remotest way to have uttered a word or acted in any form or manner that sparked off the violence. If I had, certainly that investigation would have uncovered it. The truth is that I had not."
"Thirdly, 2011 was not the first time I contested a presidential election and was declared defeated, it was the third! If I had had no cause to 'beckon on my supporters to go on lynching spree' in the two previous occasions, I would have had no cause to change in 2011 – and I did not."
Buhari called on the PDP to stop playing its "dangerous politics" that infracts his personality and integrity.
Source: Legit.ng
