Former Nigerian Vice- President, Alh. Atiku Abubakar says incumbent president, Muhammad Buhari, is trying to enmesh him in a "phantom" coup plot, the like used by the late General Sani Abacha to unjustly jail former President Olusegun Obasanjo for treason.
Atiku is reacting to the accusation made against him by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that he, alongside the PDP, is plotting to destabilize the Federal Government.
In a statement via his media adviser, Paul Ibe, Atiku said " Obviously, President Buhari wants to replay the phantom coup plot saga of his now deceased mentor, who threw former President Olusegun Obasanjo in jail after falsely accusing him of treason in order to perpetuate himself in power."
“Could it be that they are now aware that the electoral fraud they perpetrated during the last presidential election is about to be exposed beyond a shadow of a doubt?” the former vice president wondered.
He noted that if there is anybody beating the drums of war, it is the APC leaders, whom he said issued statements threatening Nigerians and foreigners alike with ‘body bags’.
Atiku described himself as a “thoroughbred democrat,” noting that he joined forces with the likes of Chief Moshood Abiola and Dr. Alex Ekwueme to resist Abacha’s dictatorship and fought for the democracy Buhari and APC were allegedly trampling on.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Atiku Abubakar resisted the Abacha dictatorship, of which President Muhammadu Buhari was a prominent member, and it is his resistance and the sacrifice of his co-travellers, like Chief MKO Abiola and Alex Ekwueme, amongst others, that gave rise to the democracy that the current government is now trampling on.
“It is preposterous that those who threatened to ‘soak the dog and the baboon in blood’ are now aukardacious enough to point the finger at lifelong democrats.
Truly, if the farmer does not raise the alarm on time, the thief will accuse him of being a thief,” he said.
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