PDP threatens to pull out of peace accord , …Condemns El-Rufai’s comment

*Seeks travel ban on el-Rufai

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Wednesday threatened to pull
out from the national peace accord, as it equally condemned the
purported statement made by the Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam
Nasir el-Rufai.

Disclosing this in a statement, the National Publicity Secretary
and Director, Media and Publicity

PDP Presidential Campaign Organization, Kola Ologbondiyan,
averred that after due consideration of comments, threats and
incendiary actions by the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the
Buhari Presidency, the party has no option than to consider a
review of its signatory in the national peace accord, if no action
is immediately taken to curb this trend.

Read the full statement below:

Nigerians are still in a shock over comments by the Governor of
Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, who declared on a national
television that members of the global democratic institutions that
are working for a peaceful election in Nigeria will return to their
countries in body bags. What a threat?

We call on the international community to immediately impose a
travel ban on el-Rufai for this inciting comment against peaceful
elections in our country.

Also of particular note is the plot to redeploy, a former Chief
Security Officer to APC leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, CP Kayode
Egbetokun, as Kwara state Commissioner of Police, where he has been
handed the instruction to incite the people, cause pandemonium and
pave the way for outright rigging in favour of President Buhari and
all other candidates on the platform of APC.

This is in line with plans by the Buhari Presidency and the APC
to effect a mass deployment of top security officers, particularly
the police, to intimidate, harass and manhandle Nigerians that will
not support the self-succession bid of President Muhammadu Buhari
as well as aiding APC thugs to snatch ballot boxes and orchestrate
violence in the elections.

Nigerians are aware of how CP Kayode Egbetokun was posted to
Lagos state by the disgraced former Inspector General of Police,
Idris Ibrahim, to serve the same partisan interest and how that
posting was stopped by the new IGP Adamu Mohammed. Now, he is being
redeployed to Kwara state for the same ignoble plot.

It is necessary to state that the PDP is a party of peace and we
are committed to the peace accord. However, the deployment of the
Kayode Egbetokun as Kwara CP directly negates the principle of the
Peace Accord and can only hurt the fragile peace that currently
exists in Kwara state.

We wish to remind the acting Inspector General, Adamu Mohammed
that his acceptability among Nigerians across party line was based
on the pedigree, which was presented to Nigerians before his
appointment.

These pedigree and exposure place on his shoulders, the
responsibility to be just, firm, equitable and professional in the
discharge of his duties. We therefore urge him not to allow his
reputation to be mired in controversial political activities.

Very importantly, the PDP calls on the National Peace Committee
to note the infractions by the APC and its leaders to the peace
accord, including the provocative shut down of all the stadia in
Kano state by the state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, in order to
frustrate the PDP Presidential campaign rallies in the state.

We therefore call on the National Peace Committee to immediately
summon el-Rufai on his inflammatory remarks against peaceful
election in our country.

The PDP hold that any situation that seeks to allow the APC to
abuse the tenets of the accord will definitely force our party to
review our signatory to the peace process. In that regard, we might
have no option left than to allow our members to defend their votes
with whatever that is available to them.

This country belongs to all of us and no individual or group, no
matter how highly placed, can subjugate other citizens or seek to
appropriate any sort of absolutism to themselves.