Impose Visa Ban On Buhari After May 29, PDP Begs International Community

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Friday pleaded with the international community to impose visa ban and other travel restrictions on President Muhammadu Buhari over his comments on the 2023 elections, explaining that Buhari was gloating over Nigeria’s worst election in recent memory.

According to the PDP, the President is bullying the judiciary, which is currently handling electoral petitions, and by so doing supporting the worse election stressing that the travel restrictions should be extended to all those involved in manipulating the outcome of the 2023 elections

National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Debo Ologunagba, made the call in a statement on Friday.

Ologunagba was reacting to a statement by Buhar that the opposition lost the 2023 elections to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, because of overconfidence and lack of strategy.

The President made the statement in the State House when he received the Progressive Governors Forum led by its Chairman, Governor Abubakar Bagudu of Kebbi State.

Buhari had said: “They were already telling their foreign backers that they would defeat the APC.

“Our party blended confidence with caution, we worked hard and won. Now, their overconfidence is creating more problems for the opposition than anyone else.” Read the full story HERE.

But reacting, PDP said it did not lose the presidential election as claimed by Buhari.

 “We are not willing to surrender the mandate freely given to our party by the people irrespective of the threats, bullying and manipulation by the APC-led administration.

“Having clearly undermined democracy in Nigeria, the PDP calls on the International Community to accordingly impose sanctions, including visa ban and travel restrictions, on President Buhari and his family immediately he vacates office on May 29.

“This demand for sanction is in line with President Buhari’s request on February 17, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium, wherein he called on the European Union (EU) to impose ‘weighty sanctions’ on those engaged in ‘unconstitutional change of governments’ as well as those influencing the ‘process and outcomes of elections’.

“The PDP also demands an open investigation into the roles played by President Buhari in the undermining of democracy in Nigeria in the 2019 and 2023 Presidential elections.”

Culled From Vanguard.