‘Call for Buhari’s Arrest, Strategy to Frustrate Tribunal’

 Muhammadu Buhari , CPC Presidential Candidate

By  Adebiyi Adedapo in Abuja

Congress for Progressive Change has described last Thursday’s call by the Northern Coalition for Democracy and Justice  for the arrest of its presidential candidate , Major- General Muhammadu Buhari[rtd], as an attempt to frustrate the investigation of the electoral fraud in the April 16 presidential election.

CPC National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin  maintained that such thinking was unreasonable, and uncalled for. "It is a cheap blackmail," he said.

He added that the PDP led- government was scared of the forensic examination being insisted on by the CPC, which according to him would reveal the alleged electoral fraud perpetuated by the PDP in the April 16 election.
He maintained that the party was resolute and would not change its position on exposing the electoral fraud.

"As a party, we are not unaware that the PDP-led Federal Government is uncomfortable with our decision to use forensic examination on the ballot papers used for the Presidential elections in the South-east, South-south, Lagos, and parts of the North-east, North-central, North-western states; as a way to buttress our claims about the shambolic conduct of a massively rigged election. We remain undeterred in our resolve to evince the truth to all Nigerians, at home and abroad, and indeed the international monitors that, contrary to the shenanigans played up by the PDP-led Federal Government, the Presidential election result was not real."