The All Progressive Congress (APC) has accused former president Olusegun Obasanjo of being haunted by his past over his allegation of the plot to rig the 2019 general elections in the country.
Speaking at an interactive session with news men in Abuja today, Sunday, the APC National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lanre Issa-Onilu, said that the allegation of plot to rig the poll was a mere imagination of the former president.
“We can understand where the former president is coming from; his past is haunting him.
“2003 and 2007 elections were nothing to write home about, those happened under former President Obasanjo. We all know how the elections went. So, for us in the APC, votes will count.”
The APC spokesman said that President Buhari has no reason to rig the election, having promised Nigerians that he would ensure their votes count.
He added that while the president’s work would speak for him at the poll, it was during former President Obasanjo’s administration that manipulation of the electoral process became a norm.
Issa-Onilu advised the former president to readjust himself to the reality of what he described as an imminent defeat.
“We are going to have a free, credible and fair election,” he insisted. “We have no reasons to want to rig election; our achievements speak for us.”
“Former President Obasanjo should adjust himself to the reality of imminent defeat that is staring him in the face.”
The APC spokesman made the comments hours after former President Obasanjo accused President Buhari of planning to rig the election scheduled to hold next month.
Obasanjo, who read out an open letter entitled “Point for Concern and Action” to reporters at his residence in Abeokuta, had also alleged that the nation was returning to the era of late General Sani Abacha.
He said that President Buhari lacked the capacity to offer Nigeria what it really deserved at this moment.
