The All Progressives Congress (APC)
Presidential Campaign Council has alerted Nigerians to what it called “a
sinister and desperate plan” by the Federal Government to deliberately engineer
trouble in six Nigerian states in order to avert imminent defeat in Saturday’s
presidential election.
To
that end, "100 trained saboteurs" have already been deployed to each
of those states, the campaign said in a statement on Wednesday afternoon signed
by Garba Shehu of its Directorate of Media and Publicity.
“Credible
information available to the campaign from deep inside the federal government
have starkly put it to us that the PDP administration has hatched a plan by
which the States of Lagos, Imo, Bayelsa, Rivers, Kano and Sokoto will be racked
by trouble of a serious magnitude in order to sabotage the presidential
election and democracy in the country in a sinister, wicked and selfish
objective," the statement said.
It
further said the crises to be fomented in those States is clearly intended
generate a crisis of such serious proportions that would lead to either the
postponement or the outright cancellation of the election in order to exclude
those states from the first round of voting. Under the plan, the
electoral commission would be forced to cancel the elections and have the
states conduct rescheduled elections a week later.
"The
whole idea, according to these credible sources is that the government wants to
buy time yet again, gain energy and pump resources into a renewed crackdown on
popular will in those states. They [will] deploy the entire muscle and
resources of the federal government to steal the election in the six
states."
The
APC Campaign advised Nigerians in the interest of the well-being of "our
hard-won democracy and the overall interest of the nation to wake up to the
reality of the threats and to do all that is lawful to resist the attempts by
the outgoing Jonathan administration to bring down our democracy at the point
of their exit."
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