Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West – PDP) has revealed that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has taken deliberate steps to foil any attempts to rig the 2019 general elections.
While speaking during the PDP’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, February 19, 2019, Melaye said the opposition party has bought secret cameras to record any attempts by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to rig the elections.
The lawmaker made the revelation while reacting to President Muhammadu Buhari‘s controversial comment about directing security operatives to be “ruthless” in dealing with ballot box snatchers who attempt to disrupt the election.
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Melaye noted security operatives swore an oath of allegiance to the constitution and not the president, warning that any operative that violates the constitution in carrying out the president’s orders will face the nation’s laws.
He said, “The unpresidential statement by the president yesterday as far as I’m concerned is a suspension of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“And I want to say that every military man, every police (officer) that took oath of allegiance did not take the oath to Muhammadu Buhari but to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“We in the PDP are ready, we’ve purchased secret cameras and any soldier, police man or paramilitary man who will abuse his oath of office in being used by the APC to unleash terror on Nigerians, we will record you.”
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Melaye urged the military to be professional and warned President Buhari that Nigerians are ready to vote him out of office.
He said, “Maybe some of you have a network problem with God, I have no network problem with God, whenever I call upon him, he answers me and he told me that Atiku will be President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
