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Progressives Congress, APC, has warned the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP and the Goodluck Jonathan administration not to repeat the rigging
strategy deployed in the June 21, 2014 Ekiti State gubernatorial
election in the forthcoming March 28 and April 11 polls.
The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed said that it was “compelled to alert Nigerians, local and foreign election observers and indeed the international community to the strategy being employed by the PDP-led Jonathan administration to manipulate the elections, using what we call the ‘Modified Ekiti Rigging Strategy’.”
Mohammed said that contrary to the generally held view that the military was used to rig Ekiti election, “it was not just the military that was involved. It was the entire gamut of the nation’s security agencies: The police, the State Security Service, SSS, and the Civil Defence.
“They were all constituted into a task force that was deployed to each local government and placed under the command of the PDP.
We have the names of all the servicemen involved in the criminal act, as well as their service and telephones numbers. On the morning of the Ekiti election, not one APC leader was a free man or woman. They were either in detention, in hiding or on the run, because the task force carried out its duty with brutal efficiency.”
APC added: “In view of the global out cry over the Ekiti show of shame, there is a plan to slightly modify it for Saturday’s election, hence what we have now termed the Modified Ekiti Rigging Strategy.
“Since indications are that the military is no longer willing to be used for such an illegal act, and other security agencies know they will be under the searchlight on election days, those who are averse to a free, fair, credible and violence-free polls have simply come up with the plan to sew military and police uniforms for their party thugs to wear on election day so they can rig the elections for the PDP! “A large number of uniformed personnel on Election Day will be those donning fake uniforms and ranks, and their mandate will be to rig for the PDP and terrorise opposition members and supporters.”
It said ethnic militias across the country; MASSOB in the South East; OPC in the South West and former militants in the Niger Delta, have been mobilized to rig the election in favour of PDP. It said: “Mobilized under the pretext of a N9 billion pipeline contract, the marching order given to the ethnic militias is to destabilise the election in their respective regions, thus rendering it inconclusive.
After all, the PDP knows it cannot win a free, fair and peaceful election. The highly disruptive and armed protest by the OPC in Lagos last Monday was a dress rehearsal for the plot.”
The party in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed said that it was “compelled to alert Nigerians, local and foreign election observers and indeed the international community to the strategy being employed by the PDP-led Jonathan administration to manipulate the elections, using what we call the ‘Modified Ekiti Rigging Strategy’.”
Mohammed said that contrary to the generally held view that the military was used to rig Ekiti election, “it was not just the military that was involved. It was the entire gamut of the nation’s security agencies: The police, the State Security Service, SSS, and the Civil Defence.
“They were all constituted into a task force that was deployed to each local government and placed under the command of the PDP.
We have the names of all the servicemen involved in the criminal act, as well as their service and telephones numbers. On the morning of the Ekiti election, not one APC leader was a free man or woman. They were either in detention, in hiding or on the run, because the task force carried out its duty with brutal efficiency.”
APC added: “In view of the global out cry over the Ekiti show of shame, there is a plan to slightly modify it for Saturday’s election, hence what we have now termed the Modified Ekiti Rigging Strategy.
“Since indications are that the military is no longer willing to be used for such an illegal act, and other security agencies know they will be under the searchlight on election days, those who are averse to a free, fair, credible and violence-free polls have simply come up with the plan to sew military and police uniforms for their party thugs to wear on election day so they can rig the elections for the PDP! “A large number of uniformed personnel on Election Day will be those donning fake uniforms and ranks, and their mandate will be to rig for the PDP and terrorise opposition members and supporters.”
It said ethnic militias across the country; MASSOB in the South East; OPC in the South West and former militants in the Niger Delta, have been mobilized to rig the election in favour of PDP. It said: “Mobilized under the pretext of a N9 billion pipeline contract, the marching order given to the ethnic militias is to destabilise the election in their respective regions, thus rendering it inconclusive.
After all, the PDP knows it cannot win a free, fair and peaceful election. The highly disruptive and armed protest by the OPC in Lagos last Monday was a dress rehearsal for the plot.”
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