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The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress yesterday condemned what it called the syndicated demonstration being sponsored by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) across the country.
It accused the ruling party of plotting to disrupt the general elections because it has become obvious to it that the polls cannot be manipulated.
In a statement by its spokesman Joe Igbokwe, the party described the wave of protests by out-lawed militia groups – the Movement for the Actualisation of Soverign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) – as desperate efforts to scuttle the electoral process.
The statement reads: “The syndicated protests by MASSOB and OPC are desperate efforts by a dying government to create confusion and trouble so as to sabotage the election when it had become obvious to the PDP that it had lost the support of Nigerians in the coming election and warns that more of such purchased mercenary protests are in the offing as we inch close to the critical 2015 election.
“It is instructive that the purchased campaigners are destroying campaign posters and bill boards of the APC in their mercenary traits and said this tells so much of the mission they are sponsored to do.
“We in the APC say that Nigerians must see in what is happening today the consuming desperation of Jonathan and PDP to pull down the Nigerian house when it has become obvious that they have lost the support of the people.
“No one should be surprised at what is happening today because it reflects the last acts of a dying junta desperate to use every means to remain in power.
“It is obvious that Jonathan and PDP have given up hence the open and bizarre sponsorship, bribery and inducement to militia groups through generous dollar-bribes and contract bazaars, for the purpose of creating enormous crisis and confusion in a bid to scuttle the coming elections.
“We see the present actions of OPC as spurred by the multi-billion naira contracts that was recently given to their leaders by a desperate Jonathan as bribery to secure such hatchet jobs they are doing at present.
“Nigerians note that the action of the hired mercenaries like OPC on the streets of Lagos, where they are visiting destruction on APC campaign materials, is an act of war, as the intended purpose is to provoke monumental crisis that will stop the election through widespread violence that may lead to war.
“The PDP is desperate to plunge the country into such war that will make both Rwanda and Burundi a child’s play considering the mix of the country’s population. We see the desperation of the PDP to remain in power when it is obvious that Nigerians don’t want it, as a clear and present danger and we alert the world to hold the PDP responsible for any breach of security in Nigeria today.
“We note that in their frustration and desperation, the PDP has resorted to the use of the word – ‘MUST’ in their public statements, as in the needless refrain that “Jonathan Must Continue In Office”, a statement that betrays the fear and hopelessness that has hit PDP and its clients such as OPC and MASSOB.
“That tells of a party that has no hope that its corrupt license would be renewed. We see the present disoriented and rootless campaigns the PDP and its purchased allies like MASSOB and OPC are now mounting against the Prof Attahiru Jega – led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Smart Card Readers (SCRs) and the PVCs are the deliberate antics of veteran electoral criminals to remain in power and nothing more.”
Igbokwe hailed Nigerians for not falling for the traps being set by the anti-democratic forces.
He said: “We are happy that Nigerians are not buying their spurious antics.
“Lagos APC is worried that the police and other security agencies are turning blind eyes to the sponsored brigandage which the PDP is unleashing on the country’s space and are not doing anything about it.
“We are worried that the syndicated brigandage of the PDP a few days to a critical election is not eliciting actions from the security agencies and while we urge our members and supporters to remain calm so as to ensure we do not play into the hands of these desperate desperados that want to scuttle an election just because they have seen they are about being thrown into the dustbin of history by Nigerians.”
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