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The All Progressives Congress says some of its members and supporters have been marked for assassination ahead of the March 28 presidential election.

The APC National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said in a statement on Wednesday that already the younger brother of Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, was attacked in his campus room and hacked with a machete.

The party said the killing of nine APC members in two separate incidents in Rivers on Saturday night raises a very serious concern about the motive of the killings.

It said the fact that all those killed, including five at the D-Line of Port Harcourt and four along the Eastern By-Pass in the Marine Base near the state capital, were members of the APC, is a clear indication that the killings may have been politically-motivated.

The statement added, Also worrisome, is the freaky attack on Chidi Adi Amaechi, the younger brother of Rivers Governor Rotimi Amaechi, who is a student of Igbinedion University in Benin, by machete-wielding young men who stormed his room in the early hours of Wednesday (March 11th, 2015) and inflicted injuries on his head and arms. Chidi is currently being treated at an undisclosed hospital.

It is difficult to see these attacks as a mere happenstance against the backdrop of the ceaseless attacks on APC members and supporters in the Okrika council area of the state, where the opposition has been the victim of at least three bomb attacks, and the hate messages being purveyed by Dame Patience Jonathan, who hails from Okrika.

We know that because they have no answer to the runaway popularity of our party in the state, they are ready to do anything possible to prevent free, fair and peaceful elections there on March 28 and April 11.

By targeting opposition members and supporters, as well as their families, the anarchists will be hoping to trigger chaos and truncate the elections in the state. This is their plan, hence we are calling on the security agencies to act fast to fish out the killers in Rivers before they decimate the ranks of the opposition and scuttle the elections.

The APC said the killings gave credence to allegations by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2013 that the President Goodluck Jonathan administration had trained snipers secretly.

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The All Progressives Congress in Ondo State has expressed confidence that the use of smart card readers for authentication in the coming general elections will guarantee credible polls.

It also criticised those opposing the use of the machine, describing them as enemies of democracy.

Publicity Secretary of the party, Omoba Adesanya, in a statement on Wednesday said INECs adoption of the machine would also boost voters confidence and ensure the elections were peaceful.

He said, Voters were registered electronically through Data Capturing Machines, and to verify the authenticity of any voter, it has to be done through the same electronic process, before voting, to avoid counterfeiting.

This is a welcome development which will drastically reduce election rigging, through snatching of ballot boxes and papers, curb over-voting, and eliminate injection of names into the Voters Register.

He argued that with the credibility element in the use of the card readers, results would be more acceptable, reducing the possibility of crisis during and after the general elections.

According to him, litigations that will be emanating from the elections will be minimal.

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The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation on Wednesday dismissed claims by the Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, that the APC signed a single term pact with Maj. Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (retd.).

The APC campaign described the governor as an incurable liar who is afflicted with mouth diarrhea.

This was contained in a statement signed by its Director of Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu.

He was reacting to claims by Governor Aliyu that Presidential Candidate of APC, Maj.Gen Muhammadu Buhari, signed a single tenure pact.

According to him, this postulation was a figment of the Governors imagination, describing it as jaundiced, ill-motivated and irresponsible.

Shehu also said Aliyu has made a bad career of misguided claims of this nature in which he presents himself as a clairvoyant fly perching on the walls of political meetings across the country.

The statement partly read, The APCPCO Spokesman dismissed Governor Aliyus recent vituperation and insinuation as the outbursts of a perpetual rabble-rouser, amateurish ethno-religious propagandist and unrepentant mischief-maker bent on stocking division and disaffection in the APC.

Shehu also said the APC Campaign is, however, not surprised at Governor Aliyus blatant lies, considering that he has also been at the centre of controversy of being in possession of a letter in which his partys presidential candidate signed onto a one-term pact with governors of the ruling party.

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The All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), said in Kaduna on Wednesday that it was part of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party antics to use religion to deceive Nigerians on the inevitable change they desire in the country ahead of the rescheduled March 28 presidential election.

Buhari said the PDP was only using religion, which he described as a matter of personal conviction, to divide the country.

The former Head of State, who spoke through the Vice Presidential candidate of the APC, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, at an inter-faith engagement in Kaduna on Wednesday, said, And they have succeeded in making some of us victims of the tales, which they invent, propagate and sell as the gospel truth to gullible listeners; while it is all nothing but tissues of lies.

Buhari noted that in spite of what detractors had said and still saying, he was not a religious fanatic of any sort and I have never been.

He added that he had no agenda to Islamise the country when elected president in the rescheduled presidential election.

He said, I would like to solemnly declare that in spite of what detractors say, I am not a religious fanatic of any sort and I have never been.

In all my life, I have never supported extremism of any kind, and nowhere in my record of service to our nation can this false toga, which political traducers have tried so hard to put on me, be substantiated.

Let me state this categorically that, I, Muhammadu Buhari, as an individual, and as a president, if given the opportunity to serve, have no personal religious agenda. And will not entertain, consider or promote the religious agenda of anyone.

I will not condone any initiative that seeks to promote one religion over the other. Neither I, nor my party, or any member of my team has any desire or plan to Islamise or Christianise Nigeria or support anyone with such intention.

He said he was recently informed that that his administration as Head of State had a balanced cabinet with key positions such as Finance, Energy and Defence occupied by Christians, adding that 11 of the 19 governors he appointed were Christians.

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March 11, 2015 by Armstrong Bakam, Bauchi 1 Comment

The candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the Bauchi State House of Assembly candidate for Ganjuwa West Constituency, Alhaji Yusuf Dadiye, who was kidnapped on Monday, has been allowed to speak to his mother, whom he told that he is hale and hearty.

Dadiye was kidnapped on Monday night on his way to Bauchi from Miya in Ganjuwa Local Government Area of the State.

A source in Ganjuwa, who spoke with our correspondent in Bauchi on condition of anonymity, said Dadiye spoke with his mother on Wednesday morning.

The source also added that the APC candidate also told his mother that his abductors had been nice to him.

The source, Alhaji Dadiye spoke with his mother this morning. He told her that he was in good health.

He also told her that his abductors were treating him well, none of them has molested or maltreated him.

When asked if the kidnappers had demanded a ransom, the source said no ransom had been demanded from the family.

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