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The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has raised the alarm over an alleged plot by the Federal Government to deliberately cause trouble in Lagos and five other states on March 28 in order to avert defeat at the poll.

The oppositions allegation was contained in a statement by the Director of Media of the APC campaign, Mallam Garba Shehu.

Credible information available to the campaign from within the Federal Government has revealed that the PDP administration has hatched a plan to destabilise elections in APC states namely, Lagos, Imo, Bayelsa, Rivers, Kano and Sokoto in order to sabotage the presidential election and democracy in the country, the party said.

Attempts to get a reaction from the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Prof. Rufai Alkali, were unsuccessful. Calls to his mobile telephone indicated that it was switched off.

However, the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo, dismissed the APCs allegations.

We will not dignify such wild allegations with a response, the PDP deputy spokesman said.

The APC statement said the crisis to be fomented in the named states is clearly intended to generate a crisis of serious proportions that would lead to either the postponement or the outright cancellation of the election in order to exclude the states from the first round of voting.

It added, By this plan, the Independent National Electoral Commission will be forced to cancel the elections and have these 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.

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The Rivers State Deputy Governor, Mr. Tele Ikuru, was conspicuously absent at Wednesdays State Executive Council meeting held at the Government House in Port Harcourt.

Ikurus absence may not be unconnected with his defection from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday.

The State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, who confirmed the deputy governors absence at the executive council meeting, disclosed that Ikuru had yet to submit his formal resignation letter from APC to the council.

Semenitari explained that Ikuru, who is the Vice Chairman of the State Executive Council, maintained that the deputy governors defection to the PDP would not affect electoral fortunes of the APC in the state.

Today, we held our weekly State Executive Council meeting. The only person that is absent at the meeting was the Vice Chairman of the council and Deputy Governor of the state, His Excellency, Engr. Tele Ikuru.

The meeting was chaired by His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. We want to notify the media that as of today, no formal resignation letter of His Excellency, the Deputy Governor, has reached the Chairman of Exco.

Chairman of exco briefed exco members that he had read in the media of reports of the defection of His Excellency, the Deputy Governor. Exco also received information from members of Exco from Andoni, His Excellency, the Deputy Governors local government area, that indeed he (deputy governor) has been received by the Peoples Democratic Party.

Therefore, that means that he has defected to the Peoples Democratic Party. His Excellency, the Governor, has told Exco that this does not in any way affect the position of His Excellency, the Deputy Governor as the Deputy Governor of the state, she said.

Semenitari pledged the loyalty of 31 members of the State Executive Council, including the Secretary to the State Government, Mr. George Feyii, advisers and commissioners to the State Governor and Chairman of the council, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi and the APC.

Explaining that Ikurus defection to the PDP would not affect his position as the deputy governor of the state, the commissioner stressed that none of the governors aides had left the APC for any other party and had no intention to abandon the party.

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The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress says it has received credible information that the Peoples Democratic Party leader in Lagos State, Chief Bode George; and the partys governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje; are planning to hold a meeting with senior officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday (today).

The APC, in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, said the meeting would also have a former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, in attendance.

The party, therefore, called on the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to call his officials in Lagos to order.

The statement read, Lagos APC has issued an alert that some senior INEC officials posted to Lagos for the conduct of Saturdays election are meeting the trio of the PDP governorship candidate for Lagos, Jimi Agbaje, Chief Olabode George and Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe on Thursday for the purpose of perfecting the plan by the PDP to rig the presidential election in Lagos.

As it becomes obvious to the PDP that its arrays of desperate measures to force Lagosians to vote for it have failed, the party has resorted to the last ditch tactics of buying and compromising electoral officers to rig for them. We challenge the PDP to deny this insidious plot to meet with senior INEC officials on Thursday so as to induce them with the free money the PDP has been desperately using to buy and procure all manners of pseudo support to its crumbling dreams for re- election.

As its efforts to bribe traditional rulers, traders associations, Igbo groups, Afenifere, OPC to support it have failed to move the determined resolve of the good people of Lagos to end the woe-laden regime that has pauperised and despoiled them, the PDP has resorted to indecent and clandestine meetings with electoral officers with a view to compromise them to tilt the outcome of the coming elections to their favour.

But INECs Head of Public Affairs in Lagos, Mr. Femi Akinbiyi, said he was not aware of such a meeting.

When contacted on the telephone, the publicity secretary of the PDP, Mr. Taofik Gani, said there was no truth in the allegation.

He said, There is no iota of truth in the allegation. The APC is the ruling party in Lagos and is more familiar with INEC than the PDP. For the APC to say that INEC will compromise shows how jittery they are.

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All Progressives Congress in Ekiti has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of plottingto force state workers to vote for Peoples Democratic Party in the Saturday elections or be prepared to lose their jobs.

The party also accused the governor of deceiving the people by promising them jobs not available.

But Fayose, who denied the allegations said the people should discountenance the opposition party.

A statement by APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, said the plan to inaugurate an Appointment Committee to prepare grounds for massive employment is a hoax.

Olatubosun said Ekiti people should note that all the committee members that Fayose would announce at the inauguration ceremony slated for the Government House would be mainly aggrieved PDP members who are influential in their communities.

He said this was a grand lie and deceit, adding that the governor had no plan to appoint anybody as repeatedly said since he assumed duties.

He added that the governor had raised two panels working hard to enlist the support of the civil servants and teachers with the order that the workers must deliver their units for PDP or face sack if they failed.

You would recall that some teachers were recently transferred from the city to remote areas. This is a reward for not showing commitment to President Jonathans project, which is so important to the governor. This daily harassment and coercion of teachers and civil servants has rendered them frustrated and traumatized as they have become helpless and resigned to fate,Olatubosun added.

But denying the allgeations on Wednesday on behalf of the governor, the State Publciity Secretary of PDP, Mr. Joseph Adaraniwon, accused the APC of trying to mislead the people.

He said, The governor does not have to coerce workers to vote for Jonathan when he is paying their salary and allowances regularly. He is a friend of workers.

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Progressive groups pressed for President Benigno Aquinos resignation at a rally in Manila last Friday. Marching from various points in Metro Manila, they converged at the historic Mendiola bridge where they sounded like they were, for the nth time, simply haranguing the chief executive for hours on end. Cynics said the event was nothing new in terms of its usual participants and tirades.

But something felt different about the event. Among other things, the paraphernalia were more varied and colourful; the protesters were more upbeat. It seemed they were up to something not quite the usual.

It must be recalled that progressive groups, at the outset, accorded President Aquino the benefit of the doubt. Following his landslide win in the 2010 presidential elections and his promises that his will be a better government than his immediate predecessor, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan and its kind did not burn the presidents effigy during his first State of the Nation Address. The gesture, noted journalist Inday Espina-Varona, hinted on a promise that the progressives would cautiously read the lay of the land for once.

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