Following allegations by the All Progressive congress that the people’s Democratic Party candidate Atiku Abubakar is a Cameroonian, the PDP says Atiku’s citizenship is being disputed by individuals whose ancestry had always been a subject of debate.
In a statement by the National publicity secretary Kola Ologbondiyan
the PDP described the claim as a calculated attempt by the APC to trivialise and divert attention from the compelling issue of the alleged APC rigging of the 2019 Presidential election.
He added that it was also a woeful design by the APC to overburden, distract and bog down the presidential election petition tribunal with trivialities, lies and falsehood, so as to derail the course of justice.
Ologbondiyan said, such diversionary tactic had, however, only helped in further exposing that the APC had no answers to the plethora of presentations by the PDP before the tribunal that Atiku won the election.
The spokesman said, “Whereas Atiku Abubakar’s citizenship by birth, even under our constitution, cannot be contested, it is indeed the biggest irony of the year, that Atiku’s citizenship is being disputed by individuals whose ancestry has always been a subject of debate.
“These individuals include those who, being not sure of their origins; have no love for Nigeria and even refused to be on the side of our nation at the 1985 summit of the defunct Organisation of Africa Unity in Addis Ababa.”
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