APC Exposes 10 PDP Plans To Rig Saturday's Polls
The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has
exposed various plans by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to
rig Saturday’s presidential elections at all costs in favour of its
candidate, the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.
According to the text of the press conference addressed by the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Lagos on March 26, 2015, the opposition party alleged growing cases of harassment and intimidation of its members across the country by PDP officials and candidates using the security agencies, which are supposed to be non-partisan and professional.
The statement stated that out of the desperation to win the elections at all costs, the PDP has perfected a number of strategies to rig the elections, especially in the North and in the South-west.
The
party alleged that one Alhaji Sani Musa, the owner of ACT Technologies,
the company that supplied the PVCs and the Card Readers, has been
arrested and detained by DSS officials since Tuesday. Perhaps, the
agents of the ruling party believe he may have the codes for the Card
Readers, which is preposterous. Alhaji Musa has also been accused of
colluding with the APC to rig the elections, which is totally false
because we at the APC do not subscribe to rigging under any guise.
Another strategy is to deploy bandits in uniform to polling units to disperse voters by force, after voter accreditation must have been completed using the Card Reader.
The statement claimed that while that is going on, armed police and soldiers will then come in, ostensibly to chase away the bandits and evacuate INEC officials and voting materials. After evacuating them to ‘safety’, they will then coerce the electoral officials to allow them, security agents that is, to cast all the ballots in the particular unit.
The APC believes this strategy is planned to be used mostly in the PDP controlled states in the North and the South-East.
Also, the press statement stated that the PDP plans to carry out a bombing spree in the major towns and cities in APC-controlled states of Rivers, Lagos, Kano, Imo and Edo, with a view to scaring away voters from the polling units. It added that Ekiti and Ondo stated have been earmarked for Card Reader disruption.
The
party informed that the police and PDP thugs in Ondo State, acting
under instructions from Gov Olusegun Mimiko, have laid a siege on the
opposition in the state.
It added that on Tuesday, Hon. Eniolorunda Omosule, a serving member of the House of Representatives, representing Owo/Ose Federal Constituency, was arrested and detained by the police for no reason other than to keep him away until after elections.
The statement stated that all Commissioners of Police in the South-west were yesterday invited to a secret meeting in Ibadan, where they received a Presidential bribe delivered in bullion vans as incentives for them to scuttle the elections in the region by acts of intimidation, unlawful arrests, and turning a blind eye to all irregularities and illegality that the PDP may perpetrate during Saturday’s elections. It claimed that the Minister of Police Affairs, Abduljelili Adesiyan, one of the star actors in Ekitigate, also attended the meeting.
You can read details on Vanguard.
Meanwhile, the opposition party had last week disclosed that the President Jonathan-led federal government plans to arrest its national leader, Bola Tinubu and other chieftains of the party ahead of next Saturday’s presidential election.
According to the text of the press conference addressed by the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Lagos on March 26, 2015, the opposition party alleged growing cases of harassment and intimidation of its members across the country by PDP officials and candidates using the security agencies, which are supposed to be non-partisan and professional.
The statement stated that out of the desperation to win the elections at all costs, the PDP has perfected a number of strategies to rig the elections, especially in the North and in the South-west.
Lai Mohammed
Another strategy is to deploy bandits in uniform to polling units to disperse voters by force, after voter accreditation must have been completed using the Card Reader.
The statement claimed that while that is going on, armed police and soldiers will then come in, ostensibly to chase away the bandits and evacuate INEC officials and voting materials. After evacuating them to ‘safety’, they will then coerce the electoral officials to allow them, security agents that is, to cast all the ballots in the particular unit.
The APC believes this strategy is planned to be used mostly in the PDP controlled states in the North and the South-East.
Also, the press statement stated that the PDP plans to carry out a bombing spree in the major towns and cities in APC-controlled states of Rivers, Lagos, Kano, Imo and Edo, with a view to scaring away voters from the polling units. It added that Ekiti and Ondo stated have been earmarked for Card Reader disruption.
APC and PDP party logo
It added that on Tuesday, Hon. Eniolorunda Omosule, a serving member of the House of Representatives, representing Owo/Ose Federal Constituency, was arrested and detained by the police for no reason other than to keep him away until after elections.
The statement stated that all Commissioners of Police in the South-west were yesterday invited to a secret meeting in Ibadan, where they received a Presidential bribe delivered in bullion vans as incentives for them to scuttle the elections in the region by acts of intimidation, unlawful arrests, and turning a blind eye to all irregularities and illegality that the PDP may perpetrate during Saturday’s elections. It claimed that the Minister of Police Affairs, Abduljelili Adesiyan, one of the star actors in Ekitigate, also attended the meeting.
You can read details on Vanguard.
Meanwhile, the opposition party had last week disclosed that the President Jonathan-led federal government plans to arrest its national leader, Bola Tinubu and other chieftains of the party ahead of next Saturday’s presidential election.
According
to the National Publicity Secretary of the Party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
the federal government is planning to use the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) to carry out its evil plan.
Mr Mohammed stated that the government also plans to freeze the accounts of companies, individuals and organisations believed to be financing the APC so as to cripple its activities.
The statement released by the APC spokesman reads: “Without mincing words, we are aware that a RED ALERT alert has been sent to the EFCC to arrest the National Leader of our party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on trumped-up charges anytime from now.
Mr Mohammed stated that the government also plans to freeze the accounts of companies, individuals and organisations believed to be financing the APC so as to cripple its activities.
The statement released by the APC spokesman reads: “Without mincing words, we are aware that a RED ALERT alert has been sent to the EFCC to arrest the National Leader of our party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on trumped-up charges anytime from now.
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