PDP Insists on Zakari's Resignation, Despite Her Declaration that She's Not Related to Buhari.

Nigerian Political Parties,  In spite of the declaration by a National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Amina Zakari, that she's not related to President Muhammadu Buhari, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Saturday insisted that Zakari should resign.
Speaking in an interview with the BBC, Zakari said:

"I’m not his niece, I am not his cousin; and, on this job, I was appointed since 2010 by President Goodluck Jonathan and prior to that, I was appointed as South Africa to President Olusegun Obasanjo and I have done my work conscientiously over the years as a patriotic citizen of Nigeria.

"I don’t think I should be distracted now that elections are coming. I will continue doing my work, I will continue to serve my country to the best of my ability, with the best of intentions.

"President Muhammadu Buhari is my president as everybody else’s president.

"He is not my cousin, he is not my uncle as is being claimed; but I know him as my leader and the leader of the nation."

But PDP said it's not yet convinced with Zakari's utterances.

Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PPCO) in a statement by its Director, Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbodiyan, Saturday said Buhari’s admittance that he has an inter-marriage relationship with Zakari has vindicated its stance that she cannot be trusted with the collation of the presidential election results.

PPCO also dared the President, "to in the same vein, respond to respected elder statesman, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, who, more than two years ago, in a media interview, exposed the fact that he, Mr. President, in his nepotism, nominated Amina Zakari, his niece, and pushed her appointment as commissioner to represent his interest in INEC."

According to PDP, "It is now clear that in addition to the relationship by affinity, President Buhari also has a consanguinity relationship with Amina Zakari and has not denied that he started his early childhood in Amina Zakari’s father’s house.

"President Buhari’s admittance has effectively established that the PDP has not been crying wolf on the impropriety of involving Mrs. Amina Zakari in the collation of Presidential election results, let alone being appointed to head the final determination of the Presidential election.

"It is totally unethical and immoral for an umpire to insist on officiating a contest even when her impartiality is called to question. Even in the judiciary, judges recuse themselves in cases involving parties they have affinity with. Mrs. Amina Zakari must therefore, recuse herself, if the 2019 presidential election must be credible.

"If, indeed, President Buhari is a man of integrity and is not pushing an ulterior motive with Amina Zakari, why is he insisting that she must be in INEC and that she must be at the collation of Presidential result?

"Furthermore, if President Buhari believes he is popular among Nigerians and can win in a free and fair contest, why is he fixated at manipulating the electoral process, instead of allowing INEC to have a free hand to conduct this election? His overbearingness on INEC is portentous and we caution that such is pushing the nation to the brinks.

"We counsel Mr. President not to allow his personal interest and lust for power set our nation on fire.

"Mrs. Amina Zakari has become a major identified threat to Nigeria’s democracy, national stability and corporate existence as a nation..........