The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has warned the All Progressives Congress (APC) to steer clear of all PDP
strongholds, especially the Niger Delta region during the March 9 elections.
The party also advised
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the
APC, to “perish thoughts of using thugs
to muscle the Akwa-Ibom governorship and state assembly elections”, as the
people have been fully rallied for a firm resistance on Saturday.
In a statement on Wednesday, the
PDP said it’s position is based on the on-going heavy shipment of security
forces and armed thugs into PDP strongholds, particularly, the Niger Delta
region, with the view to suppress voters and manipulate the March 9 electoral
process for the APC.
“Since the robbery of the PDP’s
Presidential mandate, which Nigerians are determined to reclaim at the
tribunal, the APC has been jittery over the escalated public support for the
PDP not only to retain our states but also to ensure a sweeping victory for PDP
in APC states across the country,” the party said.
“As a result, the APC is
desperate to unleash violence in oil rich Akwa-Ibom, Rivers, Cross River,
Delta, Bayelsa, Abia, as well as Benue, Taraba, Gombe, Sokoto, Enugu, Ebonyi,
Kwara, but these states and all other strongholds of the PDP, spanning across
our nation, remain impregnable.
“The PDP warns that Nigerians are
still livid over the rigging of the February 23 Presidential election, which
was clearly won by Atiku Abubakar.
“As such, any further attempt to
test their collective will on March 9 is capable of sparking off a huge civil
restiveness across our nation.”
The party said it has
intelligence on various locations that the ruling party has “quartered thugs”
ahead of Saturday’s election.
“We invite Nigerians to note how
Osinbajo, on Tuesday, at a town hall meeting in Uyo, Akwa-Ibom state, boasted
that he and Oshiomhole will ensure that the APC will never be defeated and how
thugs, loaded in over 50 buses, who confessed to have been contracted by
Oshiomhole, were later intercepted on their way from Edo state to Akwa-Ibom to
cause mayhem during Saturday’s election,” it said.
“The PDP has full information on
various secret locations in Akwa-Ibom state, including hotels and other camps,
where the APC has quartered thugs ahead of Saturday’s election.
“We note that the police have
refused to evacuate these thugs; but let it be known that the people of Akwa
Ibom State will never allow them to operate.
“The PDP therefore cautions the
APC as well as its compromised INEC and security officials to bear in mind that
Akwa-Ibom and all Niger Delta states are incontrovertible PDP strongholds; that
the APC do not have any genuine followership in these states and that anybody
attempting or supporting any forceful takeover of any PDP stronghold should be
aware that he or she is doing so at his or her own peril.”
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