The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation said it was not true that Jonathan was planning to retain power at all cost.
Its Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, said this in a statement.
He said, “It is sad and unfortunate that President Olusegun Obasanjo, a father of the nation and a man that we all revere and have immense respect for, could have misread the situation so badly.
“It is simply not true that President Goodluck Jonathan wishes to remain in power at all costs and the suggestion that he has a hidden agenda or that he somehow imposed his will on INEC by getting them to postpone the elections is baseless and absurd.”
In a related development, Soyinka, in his letter titled, ‘Under-reading violence’, noted that the use of security operatives to intimidate the populace other than to protect them, is a “new low in the life of this nation,” adding that it is a serious threat to the future of democracy in Nigeria.
“It bodes ill even for the postponed elections. Is the postponement truly to ensure enfranchisement for the entire electorate or to fine-tune a new strategy for the absolute and total cooption of the uniformed services?” Soyinka asked.
The Nobel laureate also flayed the deployment of soldiers to the Lagos house of a chieftain of the major opposition party, the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
The human rights activist reminded Jonathan of how security operatives allegedly prevented the then governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, “from exercising his civil rights.”
Concluding his letter, Soyinka called on the President to lift the military siege on his political opponents before it is “too late.”
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