BY VICTOR BUORO, ABUJA – The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, on Tuesday described Governor Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai of Kaduna state as a terrorist who should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court of Justice for prosecution.
According to a press statement issued by Ike Abonyi, who is a media aide to the PDP National Chairman, Secondus was quoted as saying that “Governor el-Rufai has shown himself to be the most dangerous person for democracy in the country with his terrorist language and threats to local and international election observers and he should be arrested for his extreme hate words and divisive tendencies.
The National Chairman, who was addressing thousands of Jubilant PDP supporters at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos on Tuesday during the PDP presidential campaign, identified the Kaduna state governor as one of the brain boxes for electoral manipulation by the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Prince Secondus also called on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, to ensure that the polls are not rigged so as to avert any form of crisis in the country.
Secondus disclosed that intelligence report available to the party shows that the APC and the government have concluded plans to arrest and obstruct the movement of PDP leaders as part of the grand design to clear the way for their rigging strategy.
He mentioned some states like Kaduna, Kano, Kwara, Rivers where special security squad has been despatched to help the APC implement their illicit electoral fraud.
“Let me warn, Nigeria will not accept a rigged result and rigging by any means is a recipe for crisis in the country, therefore Prof Yakubu better be warned.
