The All Progressives Congress today in a statement has
accused the People’s Democratic Party for being behind the distribution of
leaflets in Gombe State warning residents not to come out to vote or face the
consequences if they do. APC says it’s another form of looking for a way to
postpone the rescheduled elections and that the party and the government have
been trying every new ‘trick’ to look for a way of postponing the forthcoming
elections. Below is part of what the statement said today.
”Part of the strategies of the PDP and the Jonathan
Administration is to depopulate perceived opposition strongholds through all
sorts of dangerous measures, and this scaremongering, supposedly by Boko Haram,
fits into that strategy.
The statement further went on saying, the alarm raised by
Mike Omeri, the Coordinator of the National Information Centre, that some
female suicide bombers might strike at polling units during the elections, also
fits into the PDP/Jonathan Administration’s opposition stronghold depopulation
strategy.
”It is now very clear to Nigerians that the PDP-led federal
government does not want the forthcoming elections to hold, because it is
guaranteed a shellacking. First the government sponsored a campaign to postpone
the elections because of low PVC distribution.
“When they realised the number of PVCs collected was growing
and that their argument might no longer be tenable, they suddenly used security
as an alibi, abandoning their earlier push for the election shift on the basis
of low PVC distribution.
”After they succeeded in forcing the postponement, they
launched another campaign for the PVCs and the Card Readers to be jettisoned in
favour of TVCs, because that will allow them to rig if indeed the elections
proceed in spite of them.
“Those campaigning against the use of PVCs and Card Readers
have forgotten that Ghana successfully used the same technology in its last
elections, and that it is not rocket science,” the statement read.
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