Gambari: You have chosen wrong person to malign, Presidency tells PDP
The Presidency has again frowned at the repeated sentiments being played around a recent video clip by the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP), describing it as ”a complete waste of time”.
The PDP had in the last few days addressed several press briefings over the video clip, showing the Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari, chatting along a walkway in the State House with former Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole.
The PDP as well as many commentators had picked out a part where the word ‘arrest’ was mentioned and had imputed many interpretations to it.
However, a Presidency source, who spoke anonymously, told State House correspondents that the opposition party chose a wrong person, the Chief of Staff to the President, to malign.
He noted that the many efforts so far put into discrediting Gambari had continued to fail in the face of his solid credibility.
The source was reacting to the recent call by the PDP to the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU) and other international bodies to place visa restriction on Gambari, Oshiomhole, and other individuals as punishment for allegedly plotting to truncate democracy and good governance in Nigeria.
”But despite the Presidency’s clarification and assurances by President Muhammadu Buhari and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure free and fair poll in the state, the PDP has called on the international community to deny visas to members of the APC for plotting to endanger democracy and enthrone bad governance,” the source maintained.
At press conference last week, National Chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus, had said: “We wish to also draw the attention of the international community to this gross abuse of power to undermine the democratic process by critical staff that should defend it.
