Director of Media and Publicity for Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has called on the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari, to call his supporters to order and ensure a violence-free election.
Fani-Kayode who made the call in a statement issued today in Abuja against the backdrop of the violence, arson and destruction unleashed on President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign buses at Zololo Junction along Bauchi road in Jos North North Local Government Area of Plateau State yesterday warned General Buhari and the APC not to prepare the ground for the re-enactment of the post-election violence of 2011.
“It is on record that General Buhari’s utterances since 2011 have fuelled violence especially the post-election violence in parts of the north which claimed the lives of many youth corps members who were deployed as ad-hoc staff members for that year’s election. It is sad that up till now General Buhari has refused to apologize to the Nigerian people for that barbaric and shamefulincident or show any remorse for the actions of his supporters. He could not even bring himself to tender an apology to the families of those young corps members that were hacked to death and murdered in cold blood by his agents.
“As if that was not enough tragedy unleashed on the polity, General Buhari recently said that the ‘baboon and the dog would be soaked in blood if what happened in 2011 repeat itself in 2015.” [myad]
