The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has reacted to the alleged harassment of its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, by security agents.

DAILY POST had reported that Atiku, who returned to Nigeria after his stay in Dubai, on Sunday hinted that he was intimidated by security operatives.

He was quoted as saying, “I arrived to Abuja this morning to a search by agents of the state, aimed at intimidating me and my staff.”

Speaking on the incident, PDP, in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, described the incident as an attack on democracy and the collective sensibility of the overwhelming majority of Nigerians.

The party claimed that the supposed intimidation of Atiku was done by a special security squad of army, police and paramilitary agencies sponsored by the Muhammadu Buhari government.

The statement read: “We condemn in the strongest terms the unleashing of a special security squad of army, police and paramilitary agencies by the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency to physically harass our Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, at the Abuja airport, upon his return from Dubai.

“It was shocking when the deadly squad, in a Gestapo style attack, and acting on ‘orders from above’ rushed our candidate immediately he landed and attempted to physically manhandle him before invading his aircraft with dangerous weapons to conduct a violent search.

“While they did not find anything incriminating on our Presidential candidate, this deadly squad, violently tampered with certain personal documents and gadgets belonging to him, including some of his campaign documents.

“The PDP completely rejects such violence against the person of our Presidential candidate by the Buhari Presidency, which we know has been jittery over Atiku Abubakar’s soaring popularity since his emergence as our candidate.

“We invite the world to note that having failed to drag down our Presidential candidate with spurious allegations and smear campaign, the APC has now resorted to state-backed violence against him and must be held responsible should any harm befall him or any member of his campaign team.

“The PDP is for peace, but we will not accept this recourse to violence, which we believe is orchestrated to directly harm our Presidential candidate, foist a siege mentality on the system and set the stage for series of coordinated violence, ostensibly to truncate a peaceful conduct of the 2019 general election.

“The Buhari Presidency and the APC should bear in mind that this is an attack on our democracy and the collective sensibility of the overwhelming majority of Nigerians, across board, who have accepted the choice of Atiku Abubakar as Nigeria’s next President and they will vigorously deploy every means available in a democracy to defend him and our democratic process.

“Today, Atiku Abubakar, as a Presidential candidate, has the highest demography of supporters and volunteers across our nation and we will not hesitate to call them out in defence of democracy if another such attempt is made against our candidate.

“Nigeria is not a conquered territory and anybody that wants to foist a totalitarian regime on our land will be firmly resisted

“We invite President Buhari to recall that as a Presidential candidate, he had occasions to travel out of the country and the government in power never besieged or harassed him in any way. His administration should therefore not introduce such violence in our democratic space.

“Finally, the PDP counsels the APC and the Buhari Presidency to know that power belongs to God and that the time has come for Nigerians to choose a new President, for which they have collectively rallied around Atiku Abubakar and that their resort to violence, smear campaign, character assassination and rigging will not change this resolve.”

https://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/11/pdp-blows-hot-over-alleged-harassment.html

Toothless dogs.

Shameful, corrupt rogues making empty noise!

Ok

Ok

Ok

Apshit,, why na?

maxbj:
Ok

This early momo you Don dey book space

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Toothless dogs.

Shameful rogues making empty noise!

Una go hail when PDP takes over power. This is how you show gratitude to the way you guys were treated prior to 2015 abi??

No wahala.

What is good for the goose, ........

They can only try

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Toothless dogs.

Shameful rogues making empty noise!

single sense you no get.

Ok

APC is gone already

Desperate moves shows weakness

And they know it too

You guys should get ready to fight and safe this country if it is democracy you want! This is not the time to sit in your comfort zone and speak English. This is the time to act and speak, let PMB and his Police,Army and DSS know we want them to leave that seat. Look at what you receive in Ekitit and Osun?? Enough is Enough! it's time to act collectively

Biko I need good news today.
Like for Atikulate share for Bubu.

Atiku is ordinary citizen why wouldn't security operative search him, so I we say some are bigger than the law of the land. (Nigeria).

see supporters of corruption .
Shameless souls.

All I know, so far Atiku is a Nigerian, he can be search

PDP warns Buhari! Is like this PDP does not know where their head fit into a cap...useless

bubu yii sha.... anyway

Most times PDP plays the victim's card childishly. So, because Atiku is a presidential candidate, he should just waltz in and out of airports without search? Or since when did airport search become intimidation. Guess he was not searched in Dubai.

Nigeria is not a conquered territory and anybody that wants to foist a totalitarian regime on our land will be firmly resisted.

APC government headed by Buhari must think that Nigeria belongs to them only. But in 2019, they will know that Nigeria is not their property.

lol
PDP and cheap points

blaming pmb for any little disagreed between his own members

How do they expect an aspirant directly under the eyes of the press/presidency/Nigerians to get alleged in crime at a very crucial time if not to plant it themselves?...

The fact that so many security stories have always been linked to him calls for this type of search by GVt...But truth be said,it should be done with all standards.May God give us the better person

Atikulated we stand under the rain or in the sun.
They are only jiltery of the wave of the Changer hahaha.

pek:
Most times PDP plays the victim's card childishly. So, because Atiku is a presidential candidate, he should just waltz in and out of airports without search? Or since when did airport search become intimidation. Guess he was not searched in Dubai.

Unleashing of a special security squad of army, police and paramilitary agencies on Atiku is pure intimidation. If such was done to Buhari by GEJ, they would have called him a dictator.

I wish say make dem fast forward time.....
Make APC win the election

This noise too much for ear

They are not yet number one citizen, yet they want to be treated as such. They're used to the do you know who I be? And PMB do not tolerate that.

Accepted self he was intimidated let him do his worst.