The Coalition of United Political
Parties (CUPP) has claimed that the All Progressives Congress (APC), held their
caucus meeting on Monday, “to formalize the planned bloody commotion on
Saturday, to give room for writing of fake results, sack of the INEC Chairman
and fine tune processes for the emergence of an interim government.”
This was contained in a statement by CUPP’s first National Spokesperson, Ikenga Imo
Ugochinyere.
Ugochinyere also said the APC
chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, attacked the Resident Electoral Commissioner in
Akwa Ibom State, Mike Igini, “because the REC refused to make result sheets of
two of the three Senatorial seats and also the Presidential election result
seats available to Sen. Godswill Akpabio.”
CUPP further declared that
President Muhammadu Buhari “must be held personally responsible for the loss of
any lives due to the instructions he has given to the security forces”, after
he said ballot boxes snatchers will be doing so at the risk of their lives.
FULL STATEMENT:
The CUPP has reacted to the
hastily convened meeting of the outgoing All Progressives Congress and
describes the meeting as a meeting called to formalize the planned bloody
commotion on Saturday, to give room for writing of fake results, sack of the
INEC Chairman and fine tune processes for the emergence of an interim
government.
We have severally raised the
alarm that President Buhari was working towards establishing an interim
government. Events in the last few days have again vindicated us and for the
first time in Nigeria’s history a siting government deliberately scuttled the holding
of elections by sabotaging the processes.
The move to sack the INEC
Chairman for standing by the people and not succumbing to Presidency pressure
to conduct staggered Presidential elections is what has irked the APC the most.
The ranting of the APC Chairman in calling for the head of the INEC leadership
speaks volumes when it is obvious and as irrefutable facts have shown that the
government was responsible for the sabotage which INEC suffered and which
eventually led to the postponement of the elections.
Mr. Oshiomhole cannot follow the
witches to kill the baby at night and then follow humans to mourn the same baby
in the morning. The hand of the Presidency and the APC are written all over the
sabotage suffered by INEC and Nigerians must not fail to hold them responsible.
The fear of imminent defeat
staring them in the face is the only reason for such a panicky meeting and that
reason is not lost on Nigerians. They have gathered to develop as they usually
do, evil plans to undermine the people and distort their will. They have just
succeeded in heating up the polity and we urge Nigerians to remain calm, not be
distracted and not to be taken in by the grandstanding and usual boastful
antics of Mr. Oshiomhole for behind all that façade are inherent evil, mischief
and unbridled avarice.
Mr. Oshiomhole’s attack on the
Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa Ibom State Mr. Mike Igini was simply
because the REC refused to make result sheets of two of the three Senatorial
seats and also the Presidential election result seats available to Sen.
Godswill Akpabio.
How could Mr. Oshiomhole complain
that people are staying long in their offices when he is the National Chairman
of the Party in government which never redeployed any officer throughout its
lifespan, brought in new blood to rejig failing appointees and refused to sack
service chiefs years after they were all due for retirement. A typical dirty
kettle used by the firewood stand calling the pot used on a gas cooker black.
Nigerians must note that the live
coverage of the so called caucus meeting was meant to achieve a dual purpose.
First to give impetus to all APC thugs that since the President endorsed all
the shenanigans of the ruling Party, that they should go on rampage and also to
give instructions to security forces publicly to execute any citizen who tries
to stop the rigging machine jointly being executed by the military. The
President was unambiguous in his call that citizens should be shot dead extra
judicially if they ever tried to stop the security forces from rigging the
elections. That is the most callous public statement ever by a Nigerian
President. It must be condemned by all well-meaning citizens and the
international community. President Buhari must be held personally responsible
for the loss of any lives due to the instructions he has given to the security
forces.
The so called caucus meeting of
the APC is a meeting of desperadoes gripped by the fear of imminent defeat and
it can only be likened to the last futile kicks of a dying horse which cannot
save it. Nigerians have resolved to send this government packing and make
Nigeria work again. Nigerians have resolved to vote for a better life.
Nigerians have resolved to reclaim their country from the brink of total
collapse and restore it to the path of glory, progress and prosperity.
Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere
1st National Spokesperson
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