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THE All Progressives Congress in Rivers State has said that the attack on its rally in Okrika by unidentified gunmen on February 17, 2015, was aimed at eliminating its governorship candidate, Dr. Dakuku Peterside.

The APC explained that the state would have been plunged into a crisis that would have been difficult to resolve if the gunmen had succeeded in hitting their target.

A statement signed by the Senior Special Adviser to the State Chairman of the party, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, indicated that the APC had catalogued the sins of the Peoples Democratic Party in readiness to petition the United Nations over its (APC) challenges in the state.

If they (unidentified gunmen) had succeeded, these enemies of our democracy would have pushed the state into an unprecedented crisis; the end of which no one could have predicted, the party said.

The State Deputy Chairman of the APC, Prince Peter Odika, who is the Chairman of the investigation committee on the political violence against the party, said the panel found the Peoples Democratic Party culpable of the ugly trend in the state.

Odika, whosubmitted the committees report to the State APC Chairman, Dr. Davies IbiamuIkanya, at the partys secretariat in Port Harcourt, said the team was able to list 150 sins committed against APC by the PDP ahead of the 2015 elections.

These sins revolve around attacks against APC faithful, billboards, and LG secretariats by the misguided PDP elements in Rivers State ahead of the March/April 2015 general elections, Odika said.

He appealed that the report should be treated with the urgency it deserved before the state was plunged into crisis that could kill APC members and supporters and truncate the nations nascent democracy.

Odika disclosed that at the top of the list was the violent disruption of APCs campaign rally in Okrika, which culminated in the death of a policeman.

Receiving the report, Ikanya congratulated Odika and his committee for a job well done. He assured them that the aim of setting up the committee would be actualized and insisted that the report would be sent to the United Nations, Amnesty International, ECOWAS and other major international bodies without delay.

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Peterside, target of Okrika shooting APC

National Publicity Secretary, All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Lai Mohammed | credits: File copy

The All Progressives Congress has said President Goodluck Jonathan bears a huge moral responsibility that will hunt him for a long time to come for allowing the Boko Haram menace to fester, leading to the deaths of over 15,000 Nigerians and the displacement of over 3 million others in the past six years.

In a statement issued in London on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also hailed the military for the successes it has recorded in the battle against Boko Haram in recent times, saying the string of victories confirms the partys stand that the Nigerian military can hold its own anywhere and anytime, if provided with the necessary equipment and if the morale of the troops is not undermined.

President Goodluck Jonathan has finally owned up to his globally-acknowledged incompetence, a development which, in truly democratic societies, should be part of a statement of resignation by a leader whose terrible error of judgement has caused so many deaths and inflicted so much pain and sorrow on his compatriots.

APC said the truth is that President Jonathan deliberately allowed the Boko Haram crisis to fester because he and his team saw it as their trump card for winning re-election in 2015 by currying local and global sectarian sympathy with a Muslim-group-killing-Christians narrative that totally distorts the fact that Boko Haram is a band of marauders who have no consideration for ethnicity, regionalism, religion or any other thing beyond their mad disposition to terror.

The party said the marauders are equal-opportunity killers who went after Christians, Muslims, northerners, southerners, men, women, the old, the young, the rich and the poor.

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The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation has raised the alarm about reports of a fake Abubakar Shekau (Boko Haram leader) allegedly being paraded by the Federal Government, which it says the government intends to use to create an impression that it is winning the war on terrorism.

It said credible sources had alerted the APC that the fake Shekau might become a tool to blackmail members of the opposition by coaching the phantom terror chief to say he was working for the opposition party candidate, Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), in order to link its presidential candidate to terrorism as it had attempted but failed in the past.

A statement by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APCOPC, Malam Garba Shehu, wondered where the new Shekau would come from after government, at several times in the past, announced that it had killed the insurgents leader.

The charge to the military, that they should catch Shekau alive by the President in the last 24 hours, lends credence to the report that indeed a fake Shekau is about being created, it said.

The statement noted that the profile of the leader of the insurgents, Shekau, of a dedicated ideologue, presupposed that the man was not likely to allow himself to be caught alive.

It is both contradictory to the ideology he preaches and the psychological profile that the world has of him that Shekau would allow himself to be caught alive, the statement said.

The APCPCO recalled that the attack in Kaduna, on the partys presidential candidate, was believed by most Nigerians that it was perpetrated by theBoko Haram.

It added, The police that are constitutionally empowered to investigate and report on such incidents have not contradicted the widespread belief that this was aBoko Haramsattack.

The view of the APC is that it does not make sense for General Muhammadu Buhari to be in league with, or be associated in any way with people who have set out to kill him.

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Ayodele Fayose | credits: Allwell Okpi

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of mismanaging the state fund by spending on non-profitable ventures including the hate campaign against its presidential candidate, Gen. Muhamadu Buhari (retd.).

The party said the Governor was only trying to divert the attention of Nigerians from his alleged fraudulent victory as revealed in the leaked audio tape.

It said the money Fayose was spending on his hate campaign could have been channeled towards productive activities for the benefit of Ekiti people.

In a statement by the state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, the APC berated the governor for lack of focus on development issues.

It stressed that, For the past four months, he (Fayose) had busied himself with debts profile of the state, while not forthcoming on the balances and refunds made to the state by the Federal Government.

Olatubosun added that what Fayose was doing was the usual fraudulent antics allegedly associated with his administration to whip public sentiments against real issues of development and transparent management of state resources.

He knows with General Muhammadu Buhari as the President, that will be the end of impunity and fraud through which he was declared the governor. He knows he cant survive the revelations contained in the tape when Buhari becomes the President. That is why he wants General Buhari dead.

We know Fayose very well. He will go to any length in his hate campaign wishing Buhari dead. But he will not succeed. The spirits of Nigerians that desire change in their lives are stronger than Fayoses selfish spirit whose only wish among millions of Ekiti is to build an empire around himself with stupendous wealth while Ekiti people beg him for crumbs from his table, Olatubosun said.

The party warned Fayose against wasting Ekiti money on anti-Buhari campaign, including hiring agents trailing Buhari around the world, saying that it was criminal to be spending the state resources for personal ambition and safety.

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The All Progressives Congress has said President Goodluck Jonathan has committed a serious error of judgment, abused his office, violated the Constitution and engaged in corruption through his Abuja land grab that allegedly fetched him 90.04 hectares of land in the Aviation Village, Abuja, barely seven months after getting to office.

In a statement in London on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said nothing could justify the indiscretion of a sitting President, acquiring such a huge swath of land, as contained in a newspaper advert and yet unrefuted by the President.

It said the claim of the Presidents aides that he grabbed the land because he wanted to engage in farming, which it said was allowed under the Fifth Schedule Part 1 of the 1999 Constitution, and the justification of the land grab on the basis that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo did the same while in office, missed the point.

APC said the issues involved had gone beyond the fact that a public officer was legally allowed to engage in farming, adding that the provision quoted by the Presidents apologists was a weak and untenable defence.

The opposition party stated, The Fifth Schedule Part 1( Code of Conduct for Public Officers) of the 1999 Constitution, Section 1 states that a public officer shall not put himself in a position where his personal interest conflicts with his duties and responsibilities.

But thats exactly what the President did by leveraging his high office to grab a prime land in Abuja. Would Goodluck Jonathan have been given 90.04 Ha of such a prime land were he not a sitting President?

What happened in that Abuja land grab is nothing but the height of indiscretion and abuse of office, and cannot be justified or explained away just like that. Without mincing words, it also amounts to corruption, which is defined in part as a perversion of integrity, and a glaring instance of bad leadership.

It alleged that the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Bala Mohammed, also grabbed 40.40 hectares of prime land in Abuja, under the facade of using it for farming, because his boss, the President, had done so.

APC slammed the Presidents apologists for seeking to justify Jonathans action because Chief Obasanjo, according to them, also acquired land for farming during his own presidency.

The party said, Those pushing this kind of argument are worsening the Presidents case and insulting Nigerians. When did one bad act become a justification for another? Does a thief escape punishment by saying he stole because someone else had stolen? If indeed Chief Obasanjo did it, does that make it right? Is this not part of the reasons this President has been unable to fight corruption?

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