Jonathan, PDP plan to cripple Buhari — APC Campaign

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council
(APCPCO) has condemned as bestial and undemocratic the
dastardly plot by the Jonathan-led ruling Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) to clip the electoral success wings of the
opposition APC through a proposed grounding of aircrafts
and freezing of bank accounts belonging to stalwarts of the
party.
The spokesperson to the Buhari campaign, Garba Shehu, said,
“The plot to destabilise the APC and cripple its flag-bearer,
Muhammadu Buhari, according to a statement by the APC
Presidential Campaign Organisation may be linked to the
unsettling global attention on the Party after the opposition
candidate’s triumphant performance at the United kingdom’s
think tank, Chatham House on February 26, despite futile
public protestation by a PDP rented crowd in London.”
He continued, “In as much as we understand politics to be a
game of wits and guts, yet the desperate way and manner the
PDP and its henchmen are going is anathema, criminal and
inimical to our nascent democracy and civilised human
behaviour. Hence, any attempt by anyone to cripple the APC
and its presidential candidate will be foiled by the citizens
who have taken over the movement of change as symbolised
by General Muhammadu Buhari. The hint we gather from
sources is that the government, through its agents, is plotting
to ground aircrafts and freeze bank accounts of APC
stakeholders. But history has shown that the forces of evil
can never succeed against the zeal of men and women of
virtue and good deeds.
“Information at our disposal has uncovered the ruinous plan
by the Jonathan administration to use the Aviation Ministry
and secret arm of the Security Service to hound and
clampdown members of the APC, by prospecting obnoxious
means that would ground private jets belonging to senior
members of our party, in order to halt and slow down
Buhari’s world-acclaimed phenomenal popularity as
President-in-waiting.
“There is also a plot to block or freeze the bank accounts of
APC chieftains like Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Governor
Rotimi Amaechi (Director General of APC Presidential
Campaign Organisation), and other prominent leaders
believed to be funding the General’s campaign; and availing
him their aircrafts for electioneering purposes,” Mr. Shehu
said.
Mr. Shehu recalls “that private jets conveying APC Governors,
Amaechi of Rivers State and Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State,
were either prevented from taking-off or landing during
crucial political occasions, particularly during the infamous
Ekiti State gubernatorial elections that saw PDP’s Ayodele
Fayose ‘defeating’ Dr Kayode Fayemi, in a most controversial
“military-assisted” contest now known as ‘Ekiti-gate Tape’