…it’s an attempt to scare international community away, says CUPPOlusola Fabiyi and Olalekan AdetayoThe Federal Government has alleged that members of the opposition have started lobbying foreign countries to discredit the outcome of the February 16 presidential election, if President Muhammadu Buhari wins. But opposition political parties on the platform of the Coalition of United Political Parties said the allegation was meant to scare away members of the international community from monitoring the election. When asked to be specific on the particular opposition parties behind the alleged plot, the minister simply said, “If you are talking about opposition, we know of the PDP and the CUPP (Peoples Democratic Party and the Coalition of United Political Parties. While President Buhari has received warm and genuine reception and adulation from huge crowds everywhere he has gone to campaign , their candidate has been exposed to apathetic and thinning crowds! “President Buhari is no longer sleeping well.

Source: Punch February 05, 2019 02:37 UTC