ByOmeiza Ajayi

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to claims by a former chieftain of the party, Alhaji Buba Galadima, to the effect that the APC and the Presidency used the military and other state actors to rig the just concluded presidential election in favour of the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari.

Buba Galadima

While falling short of declaring Galadima a persona non grata, the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, told Sunday Vanguard that the former Managing Director of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) simply doesn’t exist.

Galadima had, in an interview with Saturday Vanguard, accused the Presidency of coercing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to do its bidding by subverting its own rules.

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“I don’t respond to Buba Galadima. He does not exist as far as I am concerned. I don’t confer recognition on somebody like him. I don’t even read whatever he says or listen or watch him. It doesn’t bother me in any way. It is people who have time for him that are giving him the privilege of all that”, Issa-Onilu said.