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The All Progressives Congress in Ekiti on Thursday alleged that members of a faction of Oodua Peoples Congress in Army and Police uniforms carried out the attack on its secretariaton Wednesday night.
The party also said the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), had yet to reply its petition on the ongoing violence in the state where its members had been repeatedly attacked.
In a press statement made available to journalists in Ado-Ekiti on Thursday, the state Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun, who warned that the party might resort to self-help, accused the police of being compromised by not acting on its complaints.
All these premeditated attacks were reported to the police, but from our observation, the police have either been compromised or are helpless in the face of executive lawlessness, he said.
Olatunbosun recalled that APC had raised the alarm over plan by Governor Ayodele Fayose to start arresting its party leaders ahead of the Saturday presidential rally of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to put fear in the minds of their supporters.
This was after he said publicly that he didnt want to see APC posters anywhere across the state. He also said he wanted to win all the elections at all costs whether people vote for PDP or not.
Just last night, OPC members in DSS, Army and Police uniforms and backed by official policemen who are currently being housed in the Adesua Lodge of the Government House were at our party secretariat to attack the place.
Shortly before their arrival, the streetlights along Ajilosun Street where the secretariat is located were switched off. They started shooting and destroying anything in sight. They had earlier visited several parts of the state shooting and destroying the posters of our candidates.
The APC spokesman said the OPC members dressed in Army and Police uniforms planned to invade the partys rally on Saturday byshooting sporadically to cause stampede and in the chaos that will ensue, General Buhari will be shot.
We want to make it clear that presidential election is governed by federal laws that allows both Jonathan and Buhari to paste their posters without attacking members on either side.
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The All Progressives Congress has rejected the call by the National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki(retd.), for the postponement of next months general elections ostensibly to give INEC more time to distribute all Permanent Voter Cards.
It warned that under no circumstance must the elections be scuttled.
In a statement in Abuja on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the call by Dasuki, during an event at the Chatham House in London on Thursday, had exposed the hitherto clandestine plot by the Goodluck Jonathans Administration to push for the postponement of the polls, using all sorts of cheap tricks.
APC added, Now that we have found the smoking gun, we are urging the international community, in particular, to urgently extract a commitment from President Goodluck Jonathan that the elections will hold as scheduled next month, and that he would respect the outcome, just as we have said.
APC said Dasuki was only seeking to buy time for Jonathans campaign to gather steam by hinging his postponement call on the delay in PVC distribution.
They know for sure that if they dont postpone the elections, there is no way they can win. They are just terrified, the party said.
It called on Nigerians to reject in its entirety the ongoing orchestrated plot by the Jonathan administration to postpone the elections, saying the constitutional crisis that would be triggered by such postponement was capable of undermining the nations democracy.
APC added, After realising it will be rejected by Nigerians, who have borne the brunt of its mis-governance over the years, after realising that its campaign of calumny against our presidential candidate has failed, the Jonathan Administration has now started to play its last card, which is the postponement of the election.
It said the importance of elections could not be over-emphasised.
Election is the lifeblood of democracy, the mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates. It is the only way for the citizenry to renew and refresh the governing process so they can get the most benefits out of democracy. Therefore, anyone that tries to sabotage this mechanism is aiming a dagger straight at the heart of democracy, the party said.
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January 22, 2015 by Ihuoma Chiedozie, Enugu 21 Comments
The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Enugu State, Okey Ezea, on Thursday raised the alarm over alleged hoarding of Permanent Voter Cards by members of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state.
Ezea, who spoke after the inauguration of his support group in Enugu, said large amounts of the PVCs were in the custody of PDP members.
The APC candidate said information made available to him on Monday revealed that the Independent National Electoral Commissions electoral officer in Igboeze South Local Government Area, where he hailed from, came to Enugu last weekend and collected PVCs for three wards.
He added that he was informed that the said electoral officer, a woman who was not named, later sneaked into Igboeze South on Sunday and handed over the PVCs of one of the wards to the chairman of the PDP in the local government chapter.
Ezea said he immediately contacted the Resident Electoral Commissioner, who promptly summoned the woman to the INEC office in Enugu.
He said the woman, who was afraid as a result of the discovery of her action, called the PDP chairman from the INEC office in Enugu, pleading with him to return the PVCs as her job was on the line.
Ezea said the PDP chairman returned the PVCs on Tuesday.
He said, As I speak with you here, they have returned the PVCs, the PVCs were returned on Tuesday.
Ezea also cited another case where a member of the APC went to the secretariat of Udenu Local Government Area at Obolo-Afor to collect his PVC, and was told to first submit his temporary voter card.
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