The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it has uncovered “yet another in the series of devilish plots” being hatched against the leadership of the party.
Premium Times reports that, this time the plot involves a huge amount of money (in US dollars) brought into Nigeria by some people who would claim they were hired as cash couriers by APC leaders.
In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday March 19, by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party said the funds are to be brought into the country through the Seme or Idi-Iroko, or any other border posts, anytime from now.
It said those who planned the importation of the raw cash from a West African nation have also tipped off the security agents at the border posts to watch out for those who are bringing in a colossal amount in US dollars.
”Their plan is that once the couriers – who have been coached on their assignment – are arrested by Nigerian security agents, they will point accusing fingers at some top APC leaders who supposedly commissioned them to bring in the money to be used for the forthcoming elections,” Mohammed said.
“The plotters of the evil plan will then order the arrest of the leaders, with a view to damaging their credibility and destabilizing them ahead of the elections.”
”Let’s be clear: our leaders, who have been the targets of unprecedented mudslinging as well as physical and psychological threats will not be intimidated into abandoning their epic struggle to save our country from a rapacious administration,” he said.
“Therefore, let those who have been unrelenting in threatening them and also painting them black, using every means imaginable, desist, because their game is up. The people of Nigeria have repudiated their primitive tactics.”
APC said those who will, in their usual manner, rush to deny this plot must remember that despite their denials in the past, all the alarms raised by the party have either come to pass or have been checkmated by their exposure.
“Let us remind them that we raised the alarm over their plan to postpone the elections and it came to pass,” he said. “We raised the alarm over their opposition to the use of card readers and now all Nigerians can see. We raised the alarm that the OPC will demonstrate against Jega in Lagos and it was accurate to the day. We will continue to expose the plotters of evil.”
In reaction to the allegation, the Directorate of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode described the allegation as another set of lies fabricated by APC.
“Once again, the APC has come up with a litany of lies and falsehood. It is clear that whatever affliction has befallen them, it is getting worse by the day, it is irreversible and it is terminal. They are a party that manufactures one lie every minute and seek to sell it to the Nigerian public,” he said.
“If they are planning to smuggle large amounts of cash from outside the country because they are broke, they should just say so.
“Whatever the case, if they violate the laws of the land, by trying to smuggle in the proceeds of ill-gotten gains from foreign land, we shall meet them at the borders of our nation, we shall confiscate the cash and we shall prosecute them fully, according to the law.
“We do not need to frame anybody up because we know who the real criminals are. May God judge them for their lies.”
