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The Nigerian Presidency has advised the leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to address the concerns raised about their role in the mass data harvesting at the heart of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari, asked the PDP to respond to the story, and stop raising false alarms to gain public sympathy and divert attention from its abysmal past record and failures.

Reports said the a PDP billionaire member paid the UK firm, 2 million euro to, among other things, hack into Candidate Muhammadu Buhari’s personal data in the run up to the 2015 general elections. “Nothing undermines a country’s democracy as such unfair practices”, Shehu said “That is why President Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment when they hacked into the opposition, Democratic Party records, and this is why a Special Counsel is investigating the alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election, and if President Donald Trump’s campaign is complicit in the attempted subversion of democracy in that country. “The PDP’s decision to drag the All Progressives Congress (APC) and INEC to the United Nations over alleged plan or plot to rig the 2019 general elections are not only laughable and puerile, but they also demonstrate the level of desperation that is haunting the opposition leaders. “President Muhammadu Buhari is passionately committed to free and fair elections in the country and for a man who joined forces with local and international observers to ensure a free and fair election which brought him to power in 2015, the President would under no circumstances tolerate any attempt to derail constitutional democracy. “The outcome of the gubernatorial elections in Edo, Ondo and Anambra States stand as clear examples of President Buhari’s commitment to free and fair elections in the country, and Nigerians should indeed be wary of PDP’s desperate propaganda. “For the PDP to be preaching free and fair elections is like a street-walker preaching about chastity. “We must recall that the PDP postponed the 2015 general elections in the guise of national security challenges because defeat was staring it starkly in the face. Despite the delay tactics, it was resoundingly defeated when the polls finally held.
“The PDP has lost every moral ground and it is mortally afraid of facing the 2019 general elections because Nigerians will always remember their past and punish them one more time for economically plundering the country. “The Cambridge Analytica hacking scandal committed against Candidate Buhari by the PDP in 2015 in which billions of Naira was paid out to the Israelis and others hackers has shown that the former ruling party lacks both the integrity and credibility to talk about election rigging. “Instead of explaining their role in the scandal, the nation is greeted by stunning silence. Do they think this will simply blow away? “Rigging is PDP’s main area of core competence and its party leaders are drowning men who won’t mind clutching at any straw for political survival. “By dragging the United Nations into its political propaganda, the PDP is indirectly suggesting that it is afraid to face the voters in 2019. “Rather than hiding behind allegations of a plot to rig the elections, the opposition party should work harder to win back the trust of voters instead of spreading false alarm to gain international sympathy. “It is unfortunate that the PDP is desperately trying all dirty tricks, including the exploitation of tragedy, for political advantage.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03/presidency-asks-pdp-speak-cambridge-analytica/

Why do dey have to speak about it? Have u Ppl spoken about d cases of underage voting during d 2015 elections? Dey employed a foreign firm who plays dirty, U also employed a foreign firm which played d same game but beta... So what's d problem? Governing d country shld b their major concern but we have all clearly seen how far dey have come

How can an analog man like Buhari be hacked?

He has no email address

He has no social media account

He can't operate mobile phone or any mobile device

He can't even type nor access text messages

He doesn't know his phone number

What is there to hack in such a man?

TonyeBarcanista:
How can an analog man like Buhari be hacked?

You don make me forget my comment.

Diversionary tactics by a govt that has nothing to show for 3.5 years in power except lies and propaganda. They like dwelling on frivolities to score cheap political points. How will PDP and Cambridge analytics solve the growing hunger and deaths currently ravaging everyone under this regime?

APC govt can keep on with their propaganda exaggerations style of governance, one thing they can never change is; With hunger, economic hardship, low purchasing power, genocide by terrorist fulani herders, fuel queues, secret electricity price hikes, secret data price hikes, secret fuel price hike currently dealing with everyone in the country, a vast majority of Nigerians wished PDP won 2015 elections with the help of cambridge analytics, not the calamity/disaster call APC and buhari, enthroned to power by Obama's govt.

dunkem21:
You don make me forget my comment.

You better remember am...
but make it not less than 440 words

You don talk am finish. Case closed

TonyeBarcanista:
How can an analog man like Buhari be hacked?

He has no email address

He has no social media account

He can't operate mobile phone or any mobile device

He can't even type nor access text messages

He doesn't know his phone number

What is there to hack in such a man?

How can a dead party speak on anything, PDP is already in the morgue and it's final funeral is FeBuhari 16 2019

Hack his phone lines or emails can still add up but other data?!

Hack PMB data?

I totally agree!!!

PDP has a case to answer.

& as PDP is answering, APC should also shed more light on AKPD...

the last time I checked, $10m was greater than $2m...

enlady:
You don talk am finish. Case closed

Has PDP mined your skull? Do say if it is true before you slide beyond redemption point

I think PDP needs the expertises of LIA Mohammed

PDP will avoid their own mess.

But it keeps on following them about like fart.

Until PDP asks for forgiveness for the wasted 16yrs, they will never smell power at the center again.