by Kolapo Olapoju
Opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC), says it has unearthed a new conspiracy by “anti-democratic forces” to use the courts to either postpone next month’s general elections.
The party implored the judiciary to protect the nation’s democracy, while also urging Nigerians to “repudiate the desperadoes” and their allies who are behind the scheme.
The position of the APC was communicated via a statement released on Tuesday, January 27, by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, who said that anarchists have laid down plans to stop the elections from holding.
“We are not surprised at this, because these desperadoes are so predictable. They are following the footsteps of the infamous Association for Better Nigeria, which helped to annul the 1993 elections and which threw Nigeria into a crisis from which it has yet to fully recover, over 20 years later.”
“We can only appeal to the judiciary not to become a willing tool in the hands of those who will stop at nothing to scuttle the elections, just to perpetuate their firm grip on power. An ally of presidential aide Doyin Okupe has revealed that President Jonathan will rather have the military take over than hand over to the APC candidate. Though Okupe has made a tepid denial, the revelation has exposed the thinking and the desperation within the Presidency, ahead of the elections.”
“We are also aware that up till this moment, the President has yet to repudiate the ex-militants in the Niger Delta, who have threatened the country’s very existence if he (Jonathan) is not re-elected, as if elections are won by fiat. When this is added to ongoing moves to depopulate the North-east, which is an opposition stronghold, using scare tactics, one can see that this presidency and the PDP are as terrified and desperate as they can be.”
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