The All Progressives Congress said having failed to convince Nigerians to accept the postponement of the February elections, the Peoples Democratic Party had set in motion plans to shift the polls by ensuring that the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was disqualified.

The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said this in a statement on Tuesday.

It said the case instituted at a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, seeking a declaration that Buhari lacked the requisite qualification to contest the February 14 presidential election, was the first in a series of court cases to be instituted just so that the elections would not hold.

The statement partly read, “We are not surprised at this, because these desperadoes are so predictable. They are following the footsteps of the infamous Association for Better Nigeria which helped to annul the 1993 elections and which threw Nigeria into a crisis from which it has yet to fully recover, over 20 years later.

‘’We can only appeal to the judiciary not to become a willing tool in the hands of those who will stop at nothing to scuttle the elections, just to perpetuate their firm grip on power.”

The party said President Goodluck Jonathan was aware that if the elections went ahead as scheduled, he would lose to Buhari by a landslide.

It said the threats issued by those close to Jonathan that they would not accept the outcome of the election, should Jonathan lose, was evidence that the President was not prepared for transparent elections.

It said, “An ally of presidential aide, Doyin Okupe, has revealed that President Jonathan will rather have the military takeover than hand over to the APC candidate. Although Okupe has made a tepid denial, the revelation has exposed the thinking and the desperation within the Presidency, ahead of the elections.

‘’We are also aware that up till this moment, the President has yet to repudiate the ex-militants in the Niger Delta who have threatened the country’s very existence if he is not re-elected, as if elections are won by fiat. When this is added to ongoing moves to depopulate the North-East, which is an opposition stronghold, using scare tactics, one can see that this Presidency and the PDP are as terrified and desperate as they can be.”

The party urged the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, to advise Jonathan and his aides not to abuse the courts or use it as a tool to truncate democracy, as this could throw the country into chaos.

http://www.punchng.com/news/pdp-plans-to-use-court-to-stop-polls/

we are watching them.we know all their tricks.Come Febuhari GMB is d man

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APC and INEC were telling us before that PDP or anybody can go to court to challenge Buhari Certificate and now APC is now telling us that PDP wants to use court to stop election. It is the constitutional right of any Nigerian to go to court to sue Buhari for perjury and that is the spirit of the amended Electoral Act, the issue of locus standi has been taken care of. Buhari should just apply to WAEC or Cambridge to release his WAEC. Simple! Even at that, he has to amend his forms with INEC and withdraw his fraudulent affidavits.

Despiration in their camp....Action of people about to be defeated.
GMB all the way

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Coming from a fellow who asks Nigerians to pardon the "semi-illiterate" Buhari who committed a perjury for having a non-existing WASC certificate. Shame on you all "progressives".

tot they boasted that anybody aggreived should go to court

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It said the threats issued by those close to Jonathan that they would not accept the outcome of the election, should Jonathan lose, was evidence that the President was not prepared for transparent elections.

‘’We are also aware that up till this moment, the President has yet to repudiate the ex-militants in the Niger Delta who have threatened the country’s very existence if he is not re-elected, as if elections are won by fiat.

http://www.punchng.com/news/pdp-plans-to-use-court-to-stop-polls/

Just like Buhari did not make the "we will make the country ungovernable" statement (Please refer to links where Abati apologised and case was settled out of court) but failed to STRONGLY CONDEMN it, GEJ is doing the same now.

Wasn't his special adviser at that meeting? Isn't that almost a stamp of approval? Are their statements not a direct assault on the constitution he SWORE to protect? How come Abati hasn't released a statement to disown their "threats" that whether elections are free and fair or not, they would cause chaos.

Sometimes, put aside APC PDP sentiments and just look at things from an unbiased point of view. Just like we CONDEMN anyone who vows to make the country ungovernable if elections are rigged, we should also condemn the militants' statements or Fayose's death wish. What is wrong is wrong!