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THE All Progressives Congress has denied an allegation by the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State that its members were involved in the destruction of the PDP and the Nigerian flags.

The state PDPs allegation is coming ahead of President Goodluck Jonathans visit to Rivers State for the South-South PDP rally on Saturday.

But the State Chairman of APC, Dr. Davies Ikanya, described the partys claim as spurious, maintaining that no APC member was involved in the defacing of flags belonging to another political party or the Nigerian flag.

Speaking with journalists in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, Ikanya said the allegation was another ploy by the state PDP to begin to destroy the APC billboards and cause confusion in the state.

He said, We wish to state categorically clear that no member of the APC was involved in the destruction of the Nigerian flags or the PDP flags anywhere in the state, including the PDP office in Obio/Akpor.

If you look at our state secretariat and our offices in the local government areas, you will see that Nigerian flags are conspicuously mounted there. So, the allegation by the PDP that they saw some people in the night removing Nigerian and PDP flags is spurious and frivolous.

Ikanya recalled how the state PDP accused the APC and the state governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, of kidnapping three of their (PDP) members, adding that the police had since arrested the culprits, and they were not members of the APC.

Explaining that Amaechi and the APC did not believe in violence, the state APC chairman said, They (PDP) only want to embarrass our party. Instead of the PDP to talk about why the state (Rivers) has no federal presence, they have been raising frivolous allegations against the governor and the APC.

He, however, warned politicians to desist from planning to unleash violence during the 2015 elections and maintained that the APC would not allow any political party to rig the polls.

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