APC desperate to remove CJN over 2019 elections, says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organization
(PPCO) has accused President Muhammadu Buhari and the All
Progressives Congress (APC) of being desperate to illegally remove
the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen ahead of the
2019 elections.

In a statement Monday by the spokesman for the PDP campaign
organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party said it’s despicable
that rather than retracing their steps, the President and the APC
were attempting to blackmail Nigerians who have raised a voice
against the arraignment of the CJN before the Code of Conduct
Tribunal.

The statement said, “The Buhari Presidency and APC in turning
around to fight Nigerians have further exposed their desperation to
replace Justice Onnoghen with a pliable CJN, who will execute their
plots to use the courts to detain opposition leaders as well as
vocal members of the Civil Society during the elections.

“It is now crystal clear to all Nigerians that apart from
failing woefully in all its promises, the APC and its presidential
candidate, President Buhari, are beginning to manifest their
autocratic attributes.

“Furthermore, the Buhari Presidency is not only corrupt but has
become an asylum for corrupt people. The PPCO therefore challenges
the APC and the Buhari Presidency to name one APC member that has
been investigated, prosecuted or arraigned before any court of
competent jurisdiction in the last three and half years in spite of
their humongous corruption.

“If for anything, President Muhammadu Buhari has encouraged
corruption in our nation more than any President that had the
privilege of governing our country, Nigeria.

“It is important to restate that the Buhari Presidency is now a
refugee camp for known and well advertised faces of corruption.
From the factional National Chairman of the APC, the co-chairman of
the Buhari campaign Organization, the Director General of the
Buhari Campaign, the zonal directors and the recent entrants from
Bauchi and Gombe states, all leaders of the APC and Buhari campaign
structure are all candidates of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC).

“We therefore charge Nigerians not to be deterred by the attacks
by the Buhari Presidency, which has since become desperate and
anti-people following its rejection by Nigerians because of its
corruption, incompetence and insensitivity to the plights of our
citizens”.