The Peoples Democratic Party and the supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan in the South-West have hatched a plan to make the March 28th elections in the geo-political zone inconclusive, having realised that they cannot deliver the zone to the PDP as they have promised, the All Progressives Congress has said.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the plot was conceived at a meeting held in the Ondo State Government House on March 13th and attended by Governor Olusegun Mimiko and the Coordinator of the Jonathan Campaign, Tokunbo Modupe.
It said those planning to disrupt the elections are working in cahoots with the Oodua Peoples Congress, and they have trained and armed a number of youths with guns and other weapons, in addition to providing many of them with military and police uniforms, which we earlier said were being sewn in the capital of a state in the South-West.
APC said the highly-disruptive and armed protest by the OPC in Lagos on March 16th was a dress rehearsal for the plan to be executed across the states in the South-West.
The party also said the PDP has compiled and forwarded to the Police
Anti-Cult Squad, the names of APC youths in all the wards in Ondo State so they can be arrested and locked up before, during and after the elections, to give the PDP and its cohorts the free rein to carry out
their nefarious activities.
”As a matter of fact, funds have been provided to the Police Anti-Cult Squad to expand its detention facility, and work is going on at the facility as we write. The reason for these actions is that, despite the massive infusion of illicit funds to bribe individuals and groups in the South-West, the PDP and its agents in the region have realised that their strategy has backfired and even given the people
more impetus to vote against the ruling party,” it said.
APC therefore called on the security agencies, especially the police and the State Security Service, to shun partisanship in carrying out their assigned responsibilities to prevent any individual or group from disrupting the elections, irrespective of their political leanings.
