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The All Progressives Congress has alleged plans by one of the security agencies to harass and intimidatesupposed sponsorsof the party, which it says is part of the ongoing efforts to cripple its activities in the run up to the March 28polls.

APC believes the agency is apparently acting at the behest of the President Goodluck Jonathan administration.

In a statement in Lagos on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party however said the agency could only target phantom financiers, since the APC was, in reality, being financed by Nigerians, not some moneybags.

Though the Federal Government has used some national institutions to stifle our partys fund-raising efforts, Nigerians have utilised the available platforms to make their donations. It is therefore a futile exercise for anyone to harass some innocent people for supposedly financing the APC, it said.

The APCsaidsecurity agenciesshould only serve national, rather than partisan, interests, because while governments would always come and go, Nigeria as a country would remain.

For example, there is a plan for at least 500 security agents to apply to work as ad hoc INEC staff so they can rig for the PDP, while military and police uniforms are being sewn in a Peoples Democratic Party-controlled state in the South-West, with a view to making them available for PDP thugs to wear on election day, so they can harass and intimidate the opposition.

There is also the disturbing case of four senior officers of the State Security Service, who are being retained for some ignoble role during the general elections, even though they are already due for retirement.

It is interesting that these officers, including three at the states and one at the headquarters of the SSS, are all from the South-East and the South-South, which the Jonathan-led administration considers its stronghold.

Equally disturbing is the fact that a section of the security services has been making sensitive information available to certain PDP members, including a loose-lipped state Governor, just to get at the opposition.

This is sad because Nigeria is bigger than any political party.

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APC alleges planned clampdown on suspected partys financiers