We never expected President Jonathan to accept defeat- PDP

The Director, Media and Publicity
Directorate of the All Progressives
Congress Presidential Campaign
Organization, APCPCO, Mallam Garba
Shehu has said APC never expected
president Jonathan to concede defeat so
easily ..
Speaking with Sunday Vanguard , Shehu
said
“I can say that the President acted
with grace. He surprised us because
we never expected that they would
accept defeat. In fact, the sense
everyone had was that they
probably had plan A, B, C or D. And
in any case, with the kind of thing
that Mr. Orubebe did at the collation
center, you knew that even when
the President had grace, given the
chance with the community of
people around him, they could have
threatened this democracy.“Look, I
have been involved in presidential
campaigns about three or four times
in the past, the difference is that this
is the most fearful campaign that I
have ever experienced.
This is the most life threatening
campaign because we were dealing
with opponents we thought would
stop at nothing because they were
throwing everything into it. So, we
were not taking anything for
granted. It affected our lives. Would
you see me in a night club? You
couldn’t risk it because you didn’t
even know who was trailing you.
And it came as a huge relief.
“Again, we were getting security
reports from our own sources. Until
the President said ‘I concede’ and
congratulated Buhari, we felt every
minute that something wrong would
happen. There was a clear and
discernible threat to democracy as a
system of government.
“Look, everyone felt concerned
because, what if, God forbid, he
declared a coup? These scenarios
had been laid before Nigerians. Mr.
Okupe, the Special Adviser to the
President, was he not on Youtube,
recorded on video, saying that
Buhari will never become President?
What do you take that for? It means
that Buhari would win and they will
take it away from him.
“This careless talk, arrogant display
of power, it had come from the Villa.
Many sources with linkages to
power: Asari-Dokubo, Chief E.K.
Clark and all of them, were they not
sounding words to the President?
They had said it that they would
take away their part of the country
from Nigeria if Buhari won.
“But for the President to have come and
say ‘I accept accept defeat as the leader of
the country’; that had an effect of really
calming things down. And that’s why,
whether they like it or not, President
Jonathan has written his name in gold in
so far as this is concerned.”
Shehu assured that the president-elect
would not avenge the attacks on his
person by the allies of Jonathan, saying
there was enough work to do to meet the
aspirations of Nigerians than pursuing
mundane things.