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Jonathan, PDP waste N1tr on hate campaigns APC

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation on Monday accused the President Goodluck Jonathan campaign organisation of frittering away N1tr of tax payers money to sponsor hate campaigns to tarnish the image of leaders of the APC.

According to the APCPCO, the money was spent on advertorials in newspapers as well as sponsorship of damaging documentaries on the APC presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), and other party leaders.

Director of Media and Publicity of the APC campaign, Mallam Garba Shehu, said this at a press conference at the partys campaign headquarters in Abuja.

However, the Peoples Democratic Party denied the allegation and accused the APC of paranoia and desperation in its futile attempt to claim power.

Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo, said, It is now clear that the APC has nothing else to tell Nigerians, who have made up their minds to return President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP. Ask them, how much is Nigerias budget? They should talk on issues and stop this propaganda.

Shehu said, A panoramic view of how much Nigerias resources Jonathan and PDP have laboriously and wantonly spent on print, broadcast and social media campaigns just to damage the unassailable credential of Gen Buharis integrity will confound any casual observer of the polity in recent times.

An average cost of a wrap around in Tier 1 and Tier 2 newspapers in Nigeria is between N15m to N20m and the Jonathan campaign buys an average of five wrap around and front pages in a day in the last three months coupled with the hundreds of billions that have been spent on negative TV exposures on AIT, NTA and other television and radio stations across the country.

We had expected that a President that has spent about six years in office, with the revenues more than what all governments before him had received, will run on a record of performance rather than peddling lies and hate media campaigns that are accentuating ethnic and religious tensions in the country.

The APC campaign also alleged that Jonathan had been criss-crossing Nigeria giving an average of N50m each to traditional rulers, most especially in the South-West and the northern parts of Nigeria.

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PDP planning to compromise voting materials Ekiti APC

The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State has said it has uncovered a plot by the state leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party to compromise voting materialsin favour of President Goodluck Jonathan.

It asked the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, and all election monitors to put Ekiti State under special watch to forestall electoral fraud.

A statement by the Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatubosun, on Sunday said the allegation could not be ignoredconsidering the latest revelations in a leaked audio file that INEC materials were allegedly compromised by PDPin June 21 Ekiti governorship poll to favour its then candidate, Ayodele Fayose.

Olatubosunsaid, Our fear is not without basis. Nigerians and indeed the whole world have heard Fayose talking on Ekitigate tape about how he collected INEC soft copies and got them printed to manipulate the poll to secure victory. They also heard how the military provided cover to subvert democracy in Fayoses favour.

We are calling on Jega that we have it on good authority that Fayose has again printed fake ballot papers as usual to exchange with INEC original ballotson Friday nightpreceding election day.

Olatubosun alleged that the plan was to exchange the ballot papers in the night ofFriday March 27just as it was done in the night ofFriday June 20, 2015.

He urged Jega, INEC officials and security agents to ensure that ballot papers were not distributed at night, pleading that the distribution be done in the morning in the presence of party agents.

He added that Jega should put his staff under intense surveillance to avoid compromise with polls riggers.

The APC also alleged that Governor Ayodele Fayose, his Ondo State ally and their agents were in possession of fake army uniforms to be worn by the thugs allegedly imported into the state three weeks ago.

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Hold govt for kidnappings in Benue

The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Benue State, Chief Samuel Ortom, has urged security agencies to hold the Benue State Government under Governor Gabriel Suswam responsible for the recent spate of kidnappings and political violence in the state.

Ortom spoke when the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission, Prof. Bem Angwe, led a delegation from the commission on a visit to him in Makurdi on Friday.

He said that reliable sources had revealed that the people who took oath to protect lives and property had abandoned their responsibilities and compromised their positions by training a militia group and equipping it to wreak violence in the forthcoming polls.

He said a grand plan by the government to use the militia to kidnap prominent APC members and supporters had commenced with the kidnapping of the Provost of the College of Education, Katsina-Ala, on allegations that he was a supporter of the party.

According to the former Minister of State, Industry, Trade and Investment, the objective of the plan is to intimidate and scare the APC and its supporters from participating in the forthcoming polls, adding however that the plan is bound to fail.

He said that armed youths on the convoy of the governor destroyed the APC offices, flags and posters in the Ukum, Katsina-Ala, Logo and Buruku local government areas.

Ortom stated that his campaign organisation had compiled all the destruction which Suswam and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party had done to the APC campaign property in the state and would forward same to the commission for necessary action.

He appealed to the authorities to intervene as the restraint and tolerance of victims had been stretched to the limit.

Prof. Angwe, in his comments, said he was on an advocacy visit to sensitise stakeholders to see elections as a civic duty and political office as a call-to-serve and not a do-or-die affair.

He said the mandate of the commission included the investigation of allegations by victims of political violence and that its findings and decisions were as binding as court judgements.

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