Reuben Yunana
1 May 2003
Presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday vowed to use all legal means to ensure that President Obasanjo does not get away with what he called rigging of the recently concluded presidential elections.
Buhari said he would not compromise his position on the results of the election because doing so might pave the way for an era of dictatorship.
"We shall leave no stones unturned in our legal and legitimate efforts to ensure that President Obasanjo does not get away with his civilian coup d'etat which is guaranteed to plunge Nigeria into an era of dictatorship and painful oppression", a statement signed by Uche Ezechukwu, director (media and publicity) of the Buhari Okadigbo organisation said.
According to Buhari, the recent statement by PDP chieftains that they were ready to forfeit their victories in Rivers, Cross River, Bayelsa, Imo, Kaduna and Enugu States was proof that the recent election was a monumental fraud perpetrated by the PDP and INEC.
"PDP's new drift is a clear vindication of the insistence of the other parties that what took place on April 12 and 19 were no elections and must therefore be cancelled.
"Nothing short of the total cancellation of the elections will satisfy us and the millions of Nigerians whose votes were stolen in a daylight armed robbery operation carried out by the Obasanjo government with the guns and security personnel bought and funded with public resources", the statement said.
The statement explained that the demand of the ANPP presidential candidate has been validated by the recent discovery that INEC's website had awarded victory at the gubernatorial polls to the PDP candidate instead of Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the AD who had deservedly won the election, betraying the fact that the 'results' had been prepared in advance and ahead of the elections.
It argued that the recent announcement of a fresh list of candidates as 'victors' in the National Assembly elections in Anambra State to replace those who had purportedly won the elections was also another indication that elections never took place in Anambra or any other state in the Southeast or Southsouth.
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