Former presidential spokesman to ex- President Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr. Doyin Okupe has declared that All Progressives Congress (APC) should forget the 2019 presidential election as the election would be won by the Peoples DemocratiC Party (PDP) since the ruling APC had no candidate for the election.
Okupe, who made this declaration in an interview with our correspondent in Lagos yesterday also lamented refusal by President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Electoral Act passed by the National Assembly.
According to him, APC which would not win the 2019 elections without rigging had made President Buhari to shun constitutional emissary to sign the Electoral Act which was intended to sanitize the electoral process. Okupe said: “APC is only using their house boy who heads the INEC and his junior staff. Actions and activities of INEC are being dictated directly from the Villa.
If that is not the case, by now if INEC Chairman was a truly independent person, he ought to have conveyed message to APC and the villa that they do not have a candidate for 2019 presidential election. “As of today, the nomination of President Buhari is not valid.
To be nominated for an election, there are some conditions that must be met as provided for by the Constitution and the Electoral Act. Number one, you must be a Nigerian. Now, there are issues that were even confirmed by the President himself in Poland that there is doubt about his nationality whether he is a Nigerian or a Sudanese.
“As of today, the form submitted by Buhari to INEC does not contain a certificate. What he submitted is an affidavit with a false claim that his certificate is with Secretary of the Army who had sometime issued a statement that they are not in possession of any certificate of the president.
“If I falsely sworn to an oath that I am seven feet tall and measurement shows that I am not that tall, I have simply committed perjury. “Chairman of INEC as far as I am concerned is useless and cannot be relied upon due to his failure to have informed APC that its candidate has not been validly nominated and therefore request for another that another candidate be nominated. “Buhari is not a candidate for 2019 presidential election and the facts speak for themselves
