Buhari to PDP: Retract accusation against me, apologise, or face legal action

Former head of state and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the PDP to retract its accusation linking him with the Boko Haram terrorist acts, tender an unreserved public apology, or face legal action. In a statement personally signed in Kaduna today Gen. Buhari said. ”I cannot sit […]

Former head of state and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the PDP to retract its accusation linking him with the Boko Haram terrorist acts, tender an unreserved public apology, or face legal action.

In a statement personally signed in Kaduna today Gen. Buhari said. ”I cannot sit back and allow my image, and that of my political party be smeared by falsehood in the name of politics,” he said.

Buhari said, the widely publicized and very serious allegations made against him by the PDP and its spokesman, Olisa Metuh, to the effect that his utterances were responsible for the current state of insecurity and terrorism bedeviling Nigeria, were absolutely without basis.

“To support his claim, Mr. Metuh engaged in twisted logic and outright distortion  which he called facts, in which he said that I Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, beckoned on my ‘supporters to go on lynching spree should I lose the 2011 presidential election, as a result of which an unprecedented violence broke out claiming the lives ofhundreds of innocent people.

“I take very serious exception to this grave accusation against me by the PDP Publicity Secretary. It is a false allegation aimed a tarnishing my image and reputation in the hope of destroying my political and electoral standings, and that of my party, the APC in the country”

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