SAVE Nigeria Network (SNN), a civil society organisation has accused the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of hiring foreign agents to manipulate results of the 2019 general elections.
Report emerged last week that the report that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had hired the firm of Brian Ballard, a top US lobbyist, ahead of the 2019 elections.
The firm is expected to receive $90,000 per month.
Dr Abraham Abayomi, Convener Pro-Tempo, raised the alarm that the decision to hire the American to meddle in Nigeria’s election showed a troubling pattern that Atiku has no interest in running Nigeria for Nigerians.
In a statement made available to our reporter on Sunday, Abayomi warned Nigerians to be wary of the kind of foreign interference that the Atiku/Ballard marriage will produce.
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He said: “We are compelled to invite you for this press briefing after news broke that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has hired a United States firm and lobbyist, Brian Ballard to work for his campaign.
“We are saddened that the PDP and Atiku’s loyalist are hailing the $90 thousand Dollars or N31.5 million per month hire as the next best thing after the creation of mankind when they should reasonably be crying for being out of touch with reality.
“Only wickedness marinated in ignorance should make anyone see such betrayal of one’s nation as worthy of celebration. The hire is wrong on many levels.
“First, for a candidate that is selling the lies of being an apostle of restructuring, engaging Brian Ballard for that amount is the hallmark of irresponsible. Part of the restructuring Nigeria needs is the urgent trimming down of election cost so that decent people that do not have access to stolen public funds can contest and possibly win elections to contribute their quota to national development.
“But where Atiku remains obsessed with doling out to Americans part of the left over from the resources he personalized from his Vice Presidency days then reducing the cost of elections will remain a myriad and majority of those that will contest and likely win will remain treasury looters.
“We have cause to believe that the hiring of Brain Ballard is not because he is a publicist but because the $90 thousand monthly is a bribe or fees for helping Atiku commit a fresh round of crime to wit forging and manipulating documents to enable him again enter the US. Part of Ballard’s assignment, as we have been made to understand, is to lobby Americans to spare Atiku the prospect of serving jail term when he visits.
“The decision to hire this dangerous American to meddle in Nigeria’s election shows a troubling pattern that Atiku has no interest in running Nigeria for Nigerians.
“He transported over 400 people to hold his strategy session in Dubai. He hired an American to sow confusion among Nigerians. He is using Israeli spies to gather intelligence against other opponents. We know that as vice president he brought Indians and Lebanese to act as conduits for the public funds he was cornering.
“Ballard is therefore not a quantity to be celebrated as his previous job deliveries had been about manipulations and interference that was carried out by Russia in Trump’s election, which has become a subject till date in the intelligence community of America. Nigerians must, therefore, be wary of the kind of foreign interference that the Atiku/Ballard marriage will produce.
“We must also point out that if Trump is Ballard’s product then it follows that part of his strategy is to promote divisiveness – the United States has turned out fractured and the fault lines are becoming more pronounced with each successive day of the Trump Presidency but the seeds of discord were sown during the electioneering.
“Ballard as Trump’s lobbyist is not a voter anywhere in Nigeria and whatever role he has been invited to play is suspicious and can only be targeted at a regime change that seeks to invalidate the sanctity of the ballot by getting third-party countries to influence the process. It is a danger that must be immediately confronted so that we will not be lamenting in retrospect like the Americans are doing after Ballard completed his assignment there.”
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That group must be crazy
@Nigerian tribune. plz come up with better news.
Who are the group that are not aware of what happened in Osun and ekiti
LAZY GROUP
Wailers have started panicking over the chances of Mr. Integrity and his forged WAEC certificate with 83year old lifeless man. Don’t panic, just decamp and join the moving train by being ATIKU-lated before it is too late.
So soon???? #lol
I think it’s better we know the group pls
Buhari is planning to rig 2019 election by not using e-voting. There must be e-voting! This INEC chairman has no credibility.
INEC must follow electoral act. INEC cannot take independent decision outside the electoral act. If they need time, they will be given time…..but to dump electoral act is criminal and the INEC chairman must be locked up for disobeying the law.
‘Not using e-voting,’ is Buhari’s plan to rig 2019 election. NASS must stand up to this impunity.
Predetermined outcome for Buhari’s success in 2019 is fraud. It is corruption. It is impunity. Why declare votes before election. Who does that?
So much impunity in Buhari’s corrupt administration.
Thank God. Finally senate overrides Buhari on electoral act, passed the bill, now closing the gap for corruption and election result mutilation. God bless saraki and the good people of Nigeria.
Buhari, stop deceiving the international community that the election Will be free and fair. You could have chosen to honourable sign the electoral act, instead you did the reverse.
Already INEC chairman is a criminal, he must be arrested. He cannot conduct a free and fair elections.
1. He falsified documents of kogi electorate and forged their signatures just to get at Dino
2. He rigging Ekiti state elections with 30,000 Nigerian police officers.
3. He attempted to stop issuing PVCs when he realized that north had collected more PVCs than south.
4. He Covered up for underage voters in North.
5. He wants to use N6billion to feed police in 2019 elections when the same money can pay police salaries and pension for one year, to reduce police misconduct. This is the same police he used to rig elections in ekiti state.
6. INEC connived with touts to sell PVCs to individuals at N1,500 in lagos. Go to Ikorodu INEC office and you will not be disappointed. How is this INEC chairman credible?
7. After cancelling so many viable votes, and sending INEC official to tear ballot papers of Adeleke’s votes, Adeleke of PDP still won the election. Yet INEC, with all its impunity and corruption refused to declare Adeleke winner. Osibanjo shamelessly called the INEC official while he was still addressing the press to declare the election inconclusive. Thank God for stored call logs on cell phones. Shame on these thieves.
8. Instead Buhari sends Nigeria military to terrorize osun state and hand over the state to APC. This is not democracy. Democracy was when Adeleke of PDP won the election in a leveled playing field and without the intimidation of the police and military.
9. CSOs raise alarm over purchase of PVCs from their owners in Kano state. Yet corrupt INEC is deaf and blind to it. Perhaps this is the 2.9million voter who would likely vote for Buhari. This is what the governor of Kano state was referring to, when he said that 1.2million votes are ready for Buhari.
10. Judiciary under Buhari is enabling corruption and encouraging impunity. Why is the tribunal speaking the same language of lies as those who rigged elections?
11. ETC
Our votes are not safe with this corrupt criminal called INEC chairman. He must be arrested. This man is unfit to conduct a free and fair elections. He is working for corrupt Buhari and not for Nigeria.
Tell that Useless group,that We are highly #Atikulated this time
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Pessimist have seen the writings on the wall thereby started their usual persecution to depends failures.
You betta join the winning team before is too late.
Always pointing fingers.. When are we going to get serious in Nigeria ??
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Laughable!
lol, how can when it’s the incumbent that has the control of the electoral umpire? Abeg leave that quack gist.
Sponsored groups parading as save Nigeria group, working for their pockets.
Every political party rigs…. whoever rigs more strategically and tactically wins.
Hahalolz game in nigeria
Well it will gives room for the ruling party to rig too ,let him pay 1billion per month to America he will fail ,let rig together then incubency will win
Apc propaganda group..
Yes become rigging is not corruption any more according to APC
Mumu group… Hungry group
How? Are they in charge of known instruments of rigging? Is it that lnec, dss, police, military are under a PDP administration? Would buhari be asleep then and can’t use these forces to coerce or annihilates their moves? Am sure the complaints, or accusations are made by jesters
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Any body supporting that lifeless thing is also lifeless…..,because We are highly #Atikulated this time we don’t need the Association of Present Criminals, APC
hmmm na a.p.c. group den don’t stat again wit dere fake rumour…