https://nextedition.com.ng/2019/02/03/elections-pdp-warns-buhari-apc-rigging/

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sunday, warned President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) not to consider the option of rigging the forthcoming general elections.

Warning against rigging, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement said Nigeria is bigger than Mr. Buhari and the APC.

Drawing from history, the party said no leader has ever succeeded in putting Nigerians in a siege, adding even the importation of mercenaries into the country by the ruling party cannot change that reality

It lamented that the enduring spirit that won and nurtured the country’s democracy is being attacked by Mr. Buhari and the APC.

The party listed unrelenting constitutional breaches, attacks on democratic institutions, violation of human rights, a siege on the electoral system and opening of territorial borders to mercenaries as the sins of the president and his party.

It argued the braches are meant to subdue the people so Mr. Buhari might achieve a self-succession plan, having realised there is no way they can win in a free, fair and peaceful election.

“There is a ferocious attempt to take away our liberty as a people. There is total clampdown, arrest and detention of dissenting voices; invasion of media houses, manhandling and illegal detention of journalists by state forces have become the order of the day; but all these will not break the Nigerian spirit,” Mr. Ologbondiyan said.

“Our nation will never succumb to Buhari Presidency’s assault on our National Assembly, the attack on our judiciary and besieging of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) where President Buhari’s relation is being foisted as the head of the collation centre.

“Nigerians have decided to vote out President Buhari, come February 16, and no amount of intimidation, clampdown and harassment can change that resolve.