Hacking Allegations: PDP Pillories Presidency over False Claims

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has pilloried the Presidency for
falsely accusing it of hacking into President Muhammadu Buhari’s
personal data in the run up to the 2015 general election.

The party said President Buhari’s handlers decided to concoct the
fabrications just to divert public attention from the overwhelming
national and international rejection of their administration
particularly the Bill Gates’ verdict on the economy.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement on
Saturday, said the Presidency, in its haste to dish out lies, failed to
realize that contrary to its claims, the report they relied upon did not
even mention the PDP or any of its officials and that it even exonerated
former President Goodluck Jonathan as having no knowledge of the alleged
scam.

Since the PDP has never been involved in hacking into the any person’s
data, we decided to peruse the documents and publications in the
Guardian UK relied upon by President Buhari’s senior special assistant,
Mallam Shehu Garba, only to discover that none of them alluded to any
involvement of the PDP or any of our officials or members, directly or
indirectly of being in any way whatsoever a part of the said saga.

It is incontrovertible that the documents had clinically stated that,
“there is no suggestion that Jonathan knew of the covert operation.”
Nigerians must therefore be shocked at the extent the Buhari-led
Presidency can go in its penchant for beguiling, contrivance, deceit,
fabrication and lies.

Like a bunch of famished broom, it is clear that the sinking Buhari
Presidency has become desperate in its bid to divert public attention
from its multifarious failures and damning verdicts from national and
international figures.

Furthermore, it is laughable for the Presidency to say that the PDP is
afraid of elections. This is the same Presidency that recently informed
Nigerians that President Buhari was delaying his declaration for 2019
for fear of political opponents.

Who is afraid of election? Is it the PDP or the President’s All
Progressives Congress (APC) that has failed to conform with its
constitutional provision of constituting a Board of Trustees (BOT); a
party which is so afraid to conduct even internal election and had to
extend the tenure of its executives because its stuck 2019 presidential
candidate is even afraid of other possible contestants within its fold?

From the actions of the APC, it is manifest that the party is not only
mortally afraid of elections but engaging in all manner of shenanigans
to suppress opposition in our nation.

Nigerians are aware of the show of shame in Kano state, earlier today,
when the APC Federal Government, out of fear of our soaring support from
Nigerians, used the police to attack our members and stopped our mega
rally in Gaya Local Government Area of the state.

Our message to the Presidency and the APC is that lies, propaganda and
use of force will not save them from the looming electoral disgrace as
Nigerians are tired of their misrule and are now rallying on our
repositioned PDP to salvage our nation come 2019.