Two Million Women Holds Rally Begs Atiku To Accept Defeat

Two Million Women Rally for Democracy’ held on Friday urged the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential candidate to emulate the former President Goodluck Jonathan and congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari othis victory in the election.

Mary Onuche, Convener of the ‘Two Million Women Rally for Democracy’, noted that although the PDP candidate is within his constitutional right to seek redress, such disruptive and frightful atmosphere could lead to anarchy.

She said the former President Goodluck Jonathan will continue to receive an accolade for congratulating the then winner of the presidential election, incumbent President Buhari.

That singular act of patriotism is today hailed as the benchmark of the level of statesmanship befitting of candidates in our elections. May God bless President Goodluck Jonathan, the hero of our modern democracy, she added.

MARY also stated that ”we will not suggest that he forfeits his right to seeking judicial redress. He is very free to approach the courts to ventilate his grievances.”

But we urged him to take a position that would ensure peace in the post-election process, noting that his utterances against the election outcome were capable of causing crisis in the country.

We have become aware that his supporters are strategizing for violent protests that they are targeting to cause chaos nationwide and bring down the government. Some of Atiku’s lieutenants and political associates are subtly encouraging such protests through comments they have been making in the mainstream media and their social media accounts.

“The hostile environment being created by Atiku’s stance has been made even tenser by his reported demands on President Buhari, made through the National Peace Committee. Such behaviour suggests an opposition that has transmuted into a dictatorship, one that is hell-bent on blackmailing the country to impose itself on the people when it has been clearly rejected at the polls.

”Our democracy comes first before the personal fixations of any politician. We insist that the peace accord signed by political parties and their candidates, including Atiku, must be respected. Nigeria truly deserves peace and stability at this point in time, which is why we are holding this ‘Two Million Women Rally for Democracy in Nigeria’ to demand for national stability and peace in Nigeria.