Buhari jittery over Atiku’s popularity –PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party has said the campaign team of President Muhammadu Buhari  is accusing the United States, European Union and  United Kingdom  of supporting  its candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar because the President is  afraid of defeat in  Saturday’s  presidential   poll.

The National Publicity Secretary  of the PDP Kola Ologbondiyan  made the claim   during a press conference  in Lagos on Tuesday.

He said, “The  the Buhari  campaign team’s allegation  that the US, UK and  EU  are supporting Alhaji Atiku Abubakar  has confirmed  that they are jittery already. They are jittery because of Atiku’s popularity. This is somebody they  said could not enter  the US a  few weeks ago.

“If their  allegation against the superpowers is true,  then even the ECOWAS is supporting Atiku. They know that Buhari cannot lead  the sub-region because he lacks the capacity to do so.

“The APC has  been campaigning for our candidate with their claim that the superpowers are supporting Atiku and it is good.”

The PDP chief also  accused the ruling party of dictating to the Independent  National Electoral Commission, saying the opposition party had raised many issues but the APC told the  commission to ignore their concerns.

He also alleged  that the APC was planning  to rig the elections with the new method of simultaneous  accreditation and voting.

Ologbondiyan  said  the method of accreditation first and voting later would prevent multiple voting but said INEC had insisted on dropping the method which he said Buhari commended when he won the 2015 presidential election.

He claimed INEC had only  upgraded  the card readers in Ekiti and Osun  states where governorship  elections  were held in 2018.