OLALEKAN ADETAYO
The Presidency on Saturday faulted the decision of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party to drag the All Progressives Congress and the Independent National Electoral Commission to the United Nations over alleged plan to rig the 2019 general elections.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in a statement made available to journalists.
Shehu said the PDP’s decision was not only laughable and puerile, but also demonstrated the level of desperation that he said was haunting the opposition leaders.
Rather than raising false alarms, the presidential spokesman challenged the PDP leaders to address the concerns raised about their role in the mass data harvesting at the heart of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The statement read, “The Presidency has advised the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party to stop raising false alarms in order to gain public sympathy and divert attention from its abysmal past record and failures.
“They should, instead, address the concerns raised about their role in the mass data harvesting at the heart of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, following the revelation that they hacked into Candidate Muhammadu Buhari’s personal data in the run up to the 2015 general elections.
“The PDP’s decision to drag the All Progressives Congress and INEC to the United Nations over alleged plan or plot to rig the 2019 general elections, is not only laughable and puerile, but also demonstrates the level of desperation that is haunting the opposition leaders.”
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