The All Progressives Congress, APC, has alleged that the main opposition party Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was plotting to malign Supreme Court Justices using foreign media organisations.
This is coming ahead of Wednesday’s commencement of the Supreme Court hearing of the 2019 presidential election petition filed by the PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Lanre Isa-Onilu, at a press briefing on Monday alleged that “Bruce Fein, an American lawyer who served in the Ronald Reagan administration and writes articles in several notable foreign newspapers has been paid to publish an ‘op-ed’ on Nigerian Judiciary and the Supreme Court.”
The party further claimed that since 2015, Bruce Fein has written several articles, all critical of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.
Onilu told newsmen that having failed to lobby the government of the United States not to recognise the winner of the 2019 presidential election, President Buhari, until the election petition is determined by the Supreme Court, the PDP and Atiku were in a fresh plot to cause confusion, anarchy with a view to making this country ungovernable.
He said: “It is to be noted that PDP has made up its mind to pursue a destructive agenda against Nigeria for the next four years. This is no longer opposition politics. It is an unpatriotic agenda by people who do not mean well for their country. It is important we continue to alert Nigerians to the devious plan of the PDP.”