The Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples
Democratic Party Presidential Campaign
Organisation (PDPPCO), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode,
Tuesday night stated that the All Progressives
Congress (APC) spokesperson, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, has told yet another lie about the
speculated disqualification of the APC presidential
candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari from the
March 28 election.
Fani-Kayode in a swift reaction to Mohammed on
the issue said, “Lai Mohammed has told yet another
dirty lie. What on earth is our business with Buhari’s
court case?”
He said: “We know that he does not have a
certificate and that he was not eligible to contest
but we have moved on from there and we are ready
to meet him in the field. The truth is that the APC
are suffering from all manner of paranoia and they
have lost touch with reality.
“They are the proverbial conspiracy theorists who
are so consumed by their own morbid fears that
they sleep in their wardrobes and under their beds
every night. Each time someone knocks at the gates
of their homes they wave their hands in the air, they
shiver and scream and they say ‘the President has
sent the security people to come and arrest us’.
“Frankly they deserve to be pitied. They see
government conspiracies everywhere and they have
become prisoners of their own wild hallucinations.
The truth is that we are not in the least bit
interested in General Buhari’s travails at the court
and we are not in a position to influence the
decision of the judge or the outcome of the case one
way or the other.
“The problem with the APC is that they cannot
appreciate the difference between the judiciary and
the executive. They are so primitive that they cannot
comprehend the concept of ‘separation of powers’.
Simply because General Buhari himself controlled the
courts and threatened judges when he was in power
he thinks that the same thing is happening 31 years
later under the administration of President Goodluck
Jonathan. He does not appreciate the fact that
times have changed and that our courts and judges
are fiercely independent and deeply courageous.
“We wish General Buhari well in his case tomorrow
but frankly speaking it is the last thing on our minds
and we are not losing any sleep over it. Our prayer
is that, whichever way, the rule of law is upheld and
that justice is done.
“We also hope that he is not disqualified so that we
have the opportunity to deal with him once and for
all and demystify him at the polls. It would be a
cruel act to deprive us of the opportunity of bursting
his bubble once and for all and to humiliate him at
the polls.
“We must remember that it was the Director General
of the Buhari Presidential Campaign Organisation,
Governor Rotimi Amaechi, that has interfered with
the work of the judiciary in his state and that has
attempted to intimidate the judges by shutting down
the state High Courts for the last one year.
“It is interesting to note that when the same APC
that is now calling into question the integrity of the
judiciary got an injunction from the Lagos State
High court to stop the broadcast of the infamous
‘Lion of Bourdillon’ documentary they did not
complain about government interference in the
judiciary at the time. Neither did they complain when
they got another order from the Lagos State High
Court to stop the Commander in Chief of the Armed
Forces, President Goodluck Jonathan, from deploying
troops to help secure lives during the election.
“When things go their way the courts are good but
when they suspect that they may not they then
make baseless and childish allegations that have no
basis in logic or reality. Our advice to them is to
grow up, get real and prepare for the greatest
humiliation of their lives on March 28″.