Thread by @OfficialPDPNig

The @OfficialPDPNig cautions the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, to refrain himself from acts or actions that will suggest in any way that the military has become an arm of a political party. @HQNigerianArmy @UN @WhiteHouse @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @theresa_may

Gen. Buratai’s allusion to the people’s candidate, @Atiku, as well as his threats to officers and ranks to execute the unlawful order by President @MBuhari to participate in the electoral process is an aberration of our laws and a recipe for crisis. @UN

@Atiku spoke on the side of the law and wishes of Nigerians and cannot be intimidated by any body no matter how highly placed.@UN @WhiteHouse @theresa_may @EU_Commission @EmmanuelMacron

Gen. Buratai is counseled to note that the loyalty of the military @HQNigerianArmy is to the state and that the President lacks the powers, under our laws, to deploy soldiers for the conduct of elections. @UN @EU_Commission @WhiteHouse @POTUS @EmmanuelMacron

Our party urges Gen Buratai to concentrate on his very demanding assignment of protecting the territorial integrity of our nation and ending insurgency rather than dabbling into partisan politics at the risk of our national cohesion.

It is imperative to state that by trying to drag the military to participate in the February 23 Presidential elections, President @MBuhari plots to suspend our constitution, assume the position of an emperor, trigger unrest, subvert our electoral process and derail our democracy.

The party directs President @MBuhari to the judgment of the Federal High Court, Lagos on March 23, 2015, wherein the court, presided over by Justice Ibrahim Buba, directly outlawed the deployment of troops in the conduct of elections in our country.

President @MBuhari should also avail himself of the subsisting judgment of the Court of Appeal, which on February 15, 2015, held that the President has no powers to deploy soldiers in the conduct of elections.

The @OfficialPDPNig further counsels President @MBuhari and Gen. Buratai to end their rationalizing of military option, as the courts have summarily dismissed their arguments that soldiers are needed to guarantee peaceful elections.

According to the court, “the time has come for us to establish the culture of democratic rule in the country and to start to do the right thing particularly when it has to do with dealing with the electoral process, which is one of the pillars of democracy.

In spite of the behaviour of the political class, we should by all means try to keep armed personnel and military from being a part and parcel of the electoral process.