The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai not to drag the Military into politics.
The PDP urged Buratai to refrain from taking any action that would suggest in any way that the military had become an arm of a political party.
It said that Buratai’s allusion to the PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar as well as his threats to officers and ranks to participate in the electoral process was an aberration of the laws.
The PDP said that the loyalty of the military was to the state and that the president did not have the power to deploy soldiers for the conduct of elections.
“Our party urges Gen. Buratai to concentrate on his very demanding assignment of protecting the territorial integrity of our nation and ending insurgency rather than dabbling into partisan politics at the risk of our national cohesion.”
The PDP stated that the judgment of the Federal High Court, Lagos on March 23, 2015, presided over by Justice Ibrahim Buba, had directly outlawed the deployment of troops in the conduct of elections in the country.
Atiku Abubakar had advised the military not to take the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari who had ordered that the armed forces should be ruthless with election riggers.