{"id":16900,"date":"2019-04-14T20:44:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T20:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16900"},"modified":"2019-04-14T20:44:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T20:44:56","slug":"pdp-dismisses-cameroonian-citizenship-claims-as-apcs-diversionary-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=16900","title":{"rendered":"PDP Dismisses Cameroonian Citizenship Claims as APC\u2019s Diversionary Tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Release<\/strong><br \/>\nBy\u00a0Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary, PDP<br \/>\n<strong>\u2026Says Atiku Abubakar Will Surely Retrieve Stolen Mandate<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dismisses the reckless and groundless claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is a Cameroonian, as a calculated attempt by the APC to trivialize and divert attention from the compelling issue of their criminal rigging of the 2019 Presidential election.<br \/>\nThis disingenuous claim is 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.<br \/>\nSuch diversionary tactic has however only helped in further exposing the fact that the APC has no answers to the plethora of overwhelming evidence before the tribunal that the election was won by Atiku Abubakar and the PDP.<br \/>\nWhereas Atiku Abubakar\u2019s citizenship by birth, even under our constitution, cannot be contested, it is indeed the biggest irony of the year, that Atiku\u2019s citizenship is being disputed by individuals whose ancestry has always been a subject of debate.<br \/>\nThese 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 Organization of Africa Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa.<br \/>\nSuch persons prefer to deploy our national resources for infrastructural development in affiliated places outside the shores of Nigeria, when our country is in dire need of attention.<br \/>\nThe apparent links were further manifested in the participation of aliens in the campaigns of a particular Presidential candidate in Kano.<br \/>\nMoreover, this claim by APC appears to contain explanations as to why its administration has remained insensitive to the challenge of insurgency, general insecurity and economic travails of Nigerians in the North East, particularly in Adamawa, Yobe, Borno and Taraba states.<br \/>\nIn any case, Nigerians should not despair as the PDP and Atiku Abubakar will not be distracted in the pursuit of our mandate. The PDP has implicit confidence in the competence of our legal team to handle the diversionary antics and technicalities of the APC to unnecessarily overstrain the tribunal and derail the course of justice in the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release By\u00a0Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary, PDP \u2026Says Atiku Abubakar Will Surely Retrieve Stolen Mandate The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dismisses the reckless and groundless claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that its Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, is a Cameroonian, as a calculated attempt by the APC to trivialize and divert attention from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}