Atiku Must Pick Up His Phone To Call President Buhari, Says Keyamo SAN

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential
Campaign Council Director, Strategic Communications, Festus Keyamo,
has called on the Peoples Democratic Party and its Presidential
Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, to call President Muhammadu Buhari and
congratulate him on his maintaining lead.

In a statement by the campaign spokesman, Keyamo urged the
opposition party to call President Buhari, if they feel they have
lost the Presidential elections.

“This is not the time to sacrifice the country for personal
ambition. If they feel they have lost (as their statement clearly
indicates), Atiku Abubakar must pick up his phone to make that
famous call to President Muhammadu Buhari. The world is watching
him and so are Nigerians”.

Read Full Statement Below: 

We have just read with great consternation the Press Statement
of the National Chairman of PDP rejecting the results as being
announced presently by INEC in Abuja.

The simple questions we ask the PDP and Atiku’s Campaign team
are as follows:

(1)        How come the
PDP is rejecting results that have not been fully and completely
announced? How can one reject the result of an uncompleted game?
The process of an election does not end until the final collation
and announcement of results.

(3)        If indeed
they are only rejecting areas where they lost, are they implying
that it is only in areas where they won that can be adjudged free
and fair and all areas where they lost must be adjudged rigged? Is
that the mentality of true democrats?

In the PDP statement, it is curious that they rejected the
results as being announced, yet they claim they are coasting to
victory. What kind of logic is that? What kind of confusion is now
reigning in the minds of the top hierarchy of the PDP that they can
spew such illogicality?

It is now obvious that the top hierarchy of the PDP is
hysterical and nervous. We urge them to calm down. Obviously, this
is the first time they are sensing a massive loss of an election as
an opposition party.

It is a new experience for them. They are confused and
disoriented. For many years, they were used to manipulating the
instruments of State to just write results and announce themselves
as winners. As such they have a sense of entitlement to these
instruments of State that they could not fully manipulate this time
because President Muhammadu Buhari insisted on a level plain field
for all.

We advise the PDP that as an opposition party for many years, we
have been down this road before. This is not the time to sacrifice
the country for personal ambition. If they feel they have lost (as
their statement clearly indicates), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar must pick
up his phone to make that famous call to President Muhammadu
Buhari. The world is watching him and so are Nigerians.

Finally, we urge INEC, Nigerians and our international friends
not to be swayed by these infantile antics of the PDP. The process
of collation and announcement that is on-going should be done to
its logical conclusion after which anyone who is aggrieved should
take full advantage of the provisions of the law.