ACN reveals plot by PDP to rig Guber elections

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has alerted on a plot to rig the governorship and state assembly elections in Lagos State.

In a release signed by the National Publicity Secretaryof the ACN, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party fingered a former presidential adviser as spearheading the plot.

It also warned President Goodluck Jonathan to call the people behind the plot to order.
The statement alleged that the plot involved a war chest of N200 million, out of which a "token" of N30 million had already been released, all in a bid to compromise the 20 electoral officers in the state, by offering each of them a minimum of N2 million. 

On account of the plot, a former presidential adviser yesterday met with the electoral officers at the Tafawa Balewa Square Complex in Lagos. The meeting, it added, was facilitated by an entertainment investor, and a concessionaire of a federal government agency in Lagos. 

The ex-presidential adviser told the electoral officers that there is a war chest of N200 million for the operation, adding that if they could buy into the plot, the lowest any of them would take home would be N2 million.
To demonstrate their seriousness, the statement alleged, the ex-aide released N30 million on the spot, while the remainder of the budget would be released as soon as the job was done. 

But warning on the dire consequences of such an affront on the will of the people, the ACN warned President Goodluck Jonathan to call to order the former senator and her foot soldiers, saying that the President could not afford to worsen the post-presidential election crisis in the country. 

"This aide is trying to import the mode of election rigging in the Niger Delta to Lagos. The President should call the ex-aide to order, because the Lagos electorate are too sophisticated to be taken in by such satanic and cheap tricks," Alhaji Lai warned in the statement. 

The ACN also called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, as well as the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Lagos State, Dr. Kunle Ogunmola, to order.
"INEC must be careful and realise it cannot afford to foul up whatever modest achievement it has chalked up in this election. That is why it must call these electoral officers to order and warn its officials to back off from any plot against the people of Lagos. Any different path could just trigger a crisis, the end of which nobody could predict," the statement concluded. 

The PDP has never hidden its desire to control Lagos. Before now, there had been series of moves by the party hierachy aimed at snatching the state, regarded as the economic nerve centre of the nation, from the control of the ACN.


During his presidential campaign in Ibadan, President Goodluck Jonathan had openly declared that the South West states were ‘’too important to be left in the hands of rascals.’’

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