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February 10, 2015 by Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti 2 Comments

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has expressed concerns over alleged directive by Governor Ayodele Fayose banning all its fully paid adverts and jingles on state-owned radio and television stations.

In a statement in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday, the state APC Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun,described the action as a bastardisation of media professional ethic and abuse of contract agreement between the stations and their clients.

Olatubosun criticised the governors aide on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka,for allegedly turning the stations into a personal property of his boss.

The stations have become a laboratory for manufacturing falsehoods against high ranking government officials in the Judiciary and Legislature perceived to be against Fayoses administration.

The stations in one of their news bulletins in November 2014 accused the Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Ayodeji Daramola, of collecting N200m bribe from APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to influence the judge sitting on Fayoses eligibility case to rule against him.

About the same time, allegation that the 19 APC members of the House of Assembly demanded N135m from the governor was also broadcast on the stations. All these were without evidence.

However, Olayinka in his reactiondenied the claim saying adverts and jingles of the APC and its candidates were being used on the state broadcasting stations.

The allegation is not true. We have been using their adverts and jingles inasmuch as they are ready to pay the rate.

Even as of this morning (Tuesday), if you listened to the stations, we still carried the adverts and jingles of the APC candidates, he said.

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APC accuses Fayose of stopping its advert

The All Progressives Congress has alleged that some people suspected to be agents of the Peoples Democratic Party have begun to buying PVCs and the intimidation of some voters to seize their PVCs, in the wake of the recent postponement of the general elections.

In a statement in Lagos on Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said a company, Agro-Allied Communities Service Nigeria Limited, has been formed ostensibly to provide N50,000 each to empower women.

APC claimed, however, that anyone seeking to get the loan must provide her PVC as a collateral, calling the firm a PDP front to mop up PVCs, especially in opposition strongholds.

The party said it was becoming clearer what the PDP-led Federal government sought to gain by forcing the postponement of the elections for six weeks, arguing that the shift was to perfect their rigging plans.

The party warned those behind the acts to desist from such tactics, which its noted reflected the desperation by some people to hold on to power at all cost.

It added that it was clear that Nigerians had widely rejected them due to non-performance, massive corruption and profligacy under their watch.

APC appealed to its members and supporters in particular, and Nigerians in general, not to sell their PVCs under any guise, saying was the only power they had to effect a meaningful change that could ensure the deliverance of democratic dividends to them.

It added, Our members have alerted us to the fact that PDP agents have been operating in all villages between Kobape and Orile-Imo along the Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway in Ogun State, giving N10,000 to each poor villager and collecting their PVCs. The PDP agents are also promising each villager a monthly stipend of N10,000 if and when their party assumes office in the state.

Indications are that this objectionable PVC mop-up is being replicated in all opposition strongholds by the frenzied PDP, hence we, at the APC, have decided to alert the nation to the reprehensible act.

The party equally alleged that some Immigration personnel, acting under the guise of arresting illegal aliens with voter cards, are dispossessing a lot of unsuspecting locals in the northern part of the country of their PVCs.

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PDP buying PVC for N10,000 each, APC alleges

February 10, 2015 by Olufemi Atoyebi, Ibadan 22 Comments

The All Progressives Congress in Oyo State has raised the alarm over the alleged plot by the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government to cripple the activities of APC state governors through reductions and withholding of their statutory allocations.

In a statement by its Director of Publicity and Strategy in the state, Olawale Sadare, the APC condemned some PDP leaders from the state for allegedly collaborating with the Presidency to actualise the plot.

He said, We are glad that Governor Abiola Ajimobi administration maintains its resolve to prioritise the promotion of workers welfare as it has been able to pay good salaries, bonuses and allowances as well as promoting them. This is evident in the fact that no industrial action has been recorded in the current dispensation.

But regrettably, the sterling performances of Ajimobi and other APC governors have been a source of threat to the PDP elements notorious for their poor governance mantra and they have a face-saving grace in using their federal might to short-change the performing governors in the area of statutory allocations to states.

But for Ajimobis managerial acumen and vision, the economy of the state would have been grounded. Even when some pampered PDP state governors owe their workers up to six month salaries, Ajimobi still struggles to pay as he receives a paltry N2.9bn monthly allocation when he has a wage bill of N4.95bn to offset every month.

Unfortunately, the same opposition party leaders, who are directly or indirectly responsible for the problem, go about telling members of the public lies with a view to setting the electorate against a government that has restored sanity to the management of state finances.

APC challenged those it alleged to be accusing the state government of financial recklessness not to mislead the public with the approach of the general elections.

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The All Progressives Congress Presidential Council Organization on Tuesday decried what it calls embedded vested interest and sinister motives behind the postponement of the dates of the 2015 elections and asked President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling party to come clean.

It said the demand became necessary in the light of the wave of negative speculations in the public domain, to avert unrest and possible civil disobedience that could scuttle our hard earned democracy.

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

APCPCO decried what it called the unholy alliance between the Jonathan government, the Peoples Democratic Party and the military for the purposes of subverting the franchise of the people in the rescheduled presidential and other elections on March 28 and April 11 respectively.

The statement partly read, If the witch cried in the night and the baby died in the morning, it would not be a mere coincidence. Hence, the bodies of civilised and democratic people around the world believe that the security excuse used by this unpopular government to prolong the polls is untrue and pretentious.

What type of democracy allows compromising security chiefs to determine when elections would hold or not? Now, the National Security Adviser has become the megaphone for this government. He went to Chatham House in the UK to call for election postponement which he has now obtained. Next, he claims he would crush Boko Haram within six weeks. What if he cant, will there be a further excuse to extend the elections and create constitutional impasse? Nigerians are no fools and nobody can pull soiled cotton over our eyes anymore.

Garba also said, We are inundated with information as to how this government wants to tamper with due process by discrediting INEC and even sack its Chairman, raise false alarms, rig the election with military connivance and eventually scuttle democracy, replacing it with an interim government.

According to him, for all the party knows and can see, the contraption of an interim government has no place in the constitution as former President Obasanjo said on BBC Monday night.

The APC campaign also said President Jonathan must come clean on these allegations adding that he is the Commander-in-Chief, and not the NSA. It stressed that he must, as a matter of urgency, speak to the nation and the world on these salient allegations.

A refusal would make him the historic President who doesnt give a damn while on national assignment.

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Poll shift: APC campaign asks Jonathan to come clean

February 11, 2015 by Femi Makinde and Toluwani Eniola 2 Comments

Chief Ayo Akande | credits: http://www.thenationonlineng.net

The All Progressives Congress in Osun State has described the change in the dates of the general elections from February 14 and 28 to March 28 and April 11 as postponing the dates when the Peoples Democratic Party will suffer electoral defeat.

Also, a chieftain of the APC in Lagos State, Chief Ayo Akande, has described the postponement of the general elections as a dangerous signal for Nigerias democracy.

The state Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, said this in a statement in Osogbo on Tuesday.

The APC said that it was very clear that INEC was ready for the elections but the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan used security excuse to change the polls date.

Akande, in a statement on Tuesday, said that the antics of the Peoples Democratic Party to stay in power despite the failure of the party to deliver good governance would not work.

The APC leader alleged that the postponement was a conspiracy by the Independent National Electoral Commission to cause apathy among the electorate, adding that President Goodluck Jonathan has a hidden plan to remain in power with the poll shift.

Akande warned the President not to plunge the country into unrest, citing the case of Liberia under Samuel Doe, who unintelligently sent the Liberia people into pains of war; up till now they are yet to come out of the problem.

The statement partly read, By this action, President Goodluck Jonathan is plunging the country into a dangerous path that could truncate democracy in the country.

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Poll delay, sign of Presidents hidden agenda