The Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State has said that the state chapter of
All Progressives Congress, APC, comment on the purported visit of
Nigeria’s first lady, Aisha Buhari to the United States of America as a
function of total ignorance and mischief.
“Even the presidency has not told anyone
[in official communication] that wife of the president travelled to the
United States,” the party said in a statement. “Only ignorant and
mischief makers in the APC would believe that a trip to the USA will be
made by Mrs. Buhari and Nigerians will only get to know about it through
online media.”
The PDP, which said it would have
ignored the APC and allowed those in the party to continue to wallop in
their self-deceit, added that “it is only in the world of the APC that
wife of the President of Nigeria, the most populous black nation in the
world would travel to the USA, ostensibly to debunk her involvement in a
major scam and no television station will report her departure and
arrival. The question is, did she travel to USA or Qatar?”
The statement issued on Monday, August 8, 2016 and e-mailed to The Trent by
the state’s publicity secretary of the PDP, Jackson Adebayo said that
“if the presidency has not been bold enough to tell Nigerians that Mrs.
Aisha Buhari travelled to the USA on official visit, only a party of
scammers like the APC will go on the rooftops to celebrate photoshopped
pictures as evidence of visit to USA.”
The party said “it is strange that wife
of the President of Nigeria could travel to the USA and purportedly
attended events there without international television stations like
CNN, Al Jazeera, BBC, Sky News etc and local stations like Channels TV,
NTA, AIT and others reporting it. Or are they still ‘editing’ the video
clips?”
While casting doubt at the purported
trip, the PDP said, “Even if Mrs. Aisha Buhari actually travelled to the
USA, does that erase the fact that in the judgment delivered by the
United State District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria
Division, USA, in criminal No 1: 07CR209, that indicted the USA
Congressman, Williams Jefferson, it was mentioned that $170,000 was
transferred from account in Nigeria in the name of Aisha Buhari to an
account in the name of The ANJ Group, LLC, identifying William Jefferson
as beneficiary?”
“As a party of responsible and
discerning minds, the PDP in Ekiti State would have elected to ignore
the APC and allow the party the freedom to advertise it idiocy.
“This is more so that the matter is now a
subject of litigation and the no one has denied the existence of the
judgment that indicted Williams Jefferson and featured conspicuously at
page 22, the name of Aisha Buhari as having transferred $170,000 from
account in Nigeria to William Jefferson.
“Most importantly, Nigerians have
witnessed more heinous forgeries from the APC, one of them being
pictorial claim that President Buhari (as APC presidential candidate
then) had an interview with Kemi Fadojutimi on ‘All Eyes on Africa’ TV
show in London, whereas the interview was held in Transcorp Hilton
Hotel, Abuja.
“However, it is important to point out
that from all evidences, the pictures circulated as arrival of President
Buhari’s wife at Dulles International Airport, Washington DC could have
been taken at the Doha International Airport, Qatar.
“Even on the official website of George
Mason University and US Institute of Peace, USA where the president’s
was said to have attended events, there is nothing to show that she
attended any event in the two institutions.
“We have seen pictures of wife of the Senate President, Toyin Saraki
with President Barrack Obama’s wife, Michelle. We also saw pictures of
Mrs Patience Jonathan with Michelle Obama when she visited the USA.
“Where are Aisha Buhari’s pictures with
the First Lady of USA and major government officials from the country?
Or could she have arrived and departed from the USA like a spirit?”
“It is even more important that nothing
official has been said about the purported trip. Not from the
President’s spokespersons,” the statement concluded.
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