Buhari alleges plot by Jonathan to ground campaign aircraft

President Goodluck Jonathan’s government plans to freeze accounts and ground campaign aircraft of Muhammadu Buhari and his ‎political associates, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has claimed. APC said it had uncovered “the ruinous plan by the Jonathan administration to use the Aviation Ministry and secret arm of the Security Service to hound and […]

President Goodluck Jonathan’s government plans to freeze accounts and ground campaign aircraft of Muhammadu Buhari and his ‎political associates, the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has claimed.

APC said it had uncovered “the ruinous plan by the Jonathan administration to use the Aviation Ministry and secret arm of the Security Service to hound and clampdown members of the APC, by prospecting obnoxious means that would ground private jets belonging to senior members of our party, in order to halt and slow down Buhari’s world-acclaimed phenomenal popularity as President-in-waiting.”

“There is also a plot to block or freeze the bank accounts of APC chieftains like Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Governor Rotimi Amaechi (Director General of APC Presidential Campaign Organisation), and other prominent leaders believed to be funding the General’s campaign; and availing him their aircraft for electioneering purposes,” APC campaign media and publicity director Garba Shehu said.

He said the plot to destabilise APC and Buhari “may be linked to the unsettling global attention on the party after the opposition candidate’s triumphant performance at the United Kingdom’s think tank, Chatham House on Thursday, 26th February, despite futile public protestation by a PDP rented crowd in London.”

The APC campaign council said, “In as much as we understand politics to be a game of wits and guts, yet the desperate way and manner the PDP and its henchmen are going is anathema, criminal and inimical to our nascent democracy and civilised human behaviour. Hence, any attempt by anyone to cripple the APC and its presidential candidate will be foiled by the citizens who have taken over the movement of change as symbolised by General Muhammadu Buhari. The hint we gather from sources is that the government, through its agents, is plotting to ground aircraft and freeze bank accounts of APC stakeholders. But history has shown that the forces of evil can never succeed against the zeal of men and women of virtue and good deeds.”