The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of Saturday’s elections. Abubakar warned that history would condemn Buhari if Saturday’s presidential election was not free and fair. The former Vice President, who spoke on Tuesday in Abuja, also alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) had equipped many of their members with unnamed devices that could slow down or quicken the Smart Card Readers during the presidential poll. According to Abubakar, “So, if you are in the South-South, South-East and North-Central, you are likely to get your card readers to be slowed by those APC operatives. “We have seen the machines; we have interviewed some of those who have gone on this training, and we have passed that information to the campaign council to pass to you. “But if you are from the North-West or North-East the tendency is that they will use these machines to fast-track the read...

Former Senate President Reveals Why Buhari Was Booed by Lawmakers Third Republic Senate President, Senator Ameh Ebute, has revealed why some members of the National Assembly booed President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2019 budget presentation on Wednesday. He said that the lawmakers who booed President Buhari did so because of constituency projects. According to him, the lawmakers’ action might have been caused by Buhari’s failure to allow the them to dip their hands into the national treasury. The former lawmaker said that booing a president was unprecedented in history of democracy in the country. He expressed dissatisfaction over the incident, insisting that the lawmakers’ action did not demonstrate mature conduct of people who were supposed to be members of the National Assembly: Senators and honourable members. Ebute said the concerned lawmakers thought that they wanted to disgrace the president when in actual fact, they ended up disgracing themselves.