Politics
We have proof PDP, Atiku want to destabilise Nigeria, Lai insists
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has reiterated that the federal government has credible evidence that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, are doing everything possible to sabotage the current administration.
The minister, speaking during the twelfth annual Ramadan lecture on Saturday in his Oro country home in Kwara state, claimed that the opposition party was overheating the polity to make Nigeria ungovernable.
He said, “Our interventions are based on credible evidence, and no government with the kind of evidence that we have, of plans to subvert the power of the state, attack the nation’s economic live wire and generally unleash mayhem on the polity, will keep quiet.
“The security agencies are all alert to their responsibilities and will not sit by and allow anyone to reverse the gains of our democracy under any guise.”
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“Since our intervention, pseudo and partisan analysts have teamed up with the spokesmen for the main opposition party and its presidential candidate to either exhibit their ignorance or to engage in red herring and name calling.
“We are neither distracted nor dissuaded,” he stated.
Lai Mohammed recalled that they had raised the alarm that either by themselves or via their proxies, the PDP and its presidential candidate are doing everything possible to frustrate the Buhari administration.
He added, “Of course you are aware of similar alarms that have been raised by the police, the military and the DSS.”
Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Yusuf Buratai had on Wednesday stated that some politicians who lost in the last general elections are the sponsors of bandits and other criminal elements threatening the security of the country.
He said, “I want to believe and rightly so that with the fall out of the just concluded general elections, there are politicians who saw their defeat as a means of revenge, sponsoring these criminal activities and even banditry, clashes between the farmers and herders.
“In other words, there are strong political undertones and influences.”
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