Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba
The Presidential Campaign Organisation of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) candidate for the February election, General Muhammadu Buhari,
has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, over
the morbid advert sponsored by Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State
and published on the cover pages of two national dailies of 19th
January, 2015.
In the petition signed by the Governor of Rivers State and Director
General of the Campaign, Rotimi Amaechi, the APC Campaign Organisation
condemned PDP and Fayose for portraying its candidate, General Buhari,
as a dead man walking to scare Nigerians from voting for him in the
February 14 election.
According to the petition, the portrayal of Buhari as likely to die in
office just like past northern leaders such as Umaru Musa Yar'Adua,
General Sani Abacha and General Murtala Mohammed was "morbid and
reckless" and that such irresponsible political advert is not only "in
bad taste, but also capable of undermining law and order in the
country."
The petition said that insinuating death for a man who is still alive
based on unscientific logic or prediction is capable of causing a breach
of the peace across the country.
The APC Campaign petition also drew the attention of the IGP to the
fact that Fayose's advert violated the spirit and letter of the
Ambassador Kofi Annan initiative which, which had Nigerian political
parties and their presidential candidates sign a peace accord.
It therefore urged the IGP to investigate the origin of Fayose's
"sinister and inhuman" advert and call him to order with a view to
preventing a repeat of such provocative publication in the interest of
peace.
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