Festus Keyamo, spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) presidential campaign council, says leaders of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) should be invited by security agencies for questioning.
In a statement on Wednesday, Keyamo said the alarm raised by
the PDP over an alleged plot to disrupt the elections was part of the PDP’s way of diverting
attention from the trending issues around the party.
The PDP, in a statement on Wednesday, alleged that the APC
has directed its party members to “deploy violence and snatch power in the 2023
general election”.
The PDP had also claimed that the recent attacks on the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) facilities constituted part of
the APC’s plans to derail the conduct of the general election.
Reacting to the claim, the APC spokesperson said the PDP
must provide proof of its allegations.
“We note with concern the incoherent and convoluted press
statement issued today by the ethically-challenged Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), yet again raising alarm about certain plots to incite violence and
derail the 2023 polls and having ‘credible information’ as to those unleashing
violence in certain parts of the country,” the statement reads.
“Based on its latest press statement about having ‘credible
information’ about certain individuals plotting to derail the 2023 elections,
including acts of arson already perpetrated on the facilities of INEC, we
therefore call on the law-enforcement agencies to, as a matter of urgency,
invite the PDP leaders for immediate questioning.
“The PDP must provide
information regarding: The place and time such a meeting took place and those
in attendance; the identities of those who committed these acts of arson on the
facilities of INEC. The information must also include the identity of those who
sponsored these individuals (if any).
“The PDP should realise that an electioneering process is
very serious business and not a time to issue baseless and infantile statements
out of want of something to say to the Nigerian people. The Nigerian people
have since grown weary of the antics of the PDP.
“We also state that this gimmick is nothing but crying wolf
when there is none. We have said in an earlier statement on this issue some
weeks ago that this is the same unnecessary scare-mongering tactics and crass
vituperations they employed and engaged in before the 2019 election which led
to their crushing defeat.
“We also said before and we repeat it here that Asiwaju Bola
Ahmed Tinubu is a thoroughbred democrat and one of the major architects of the
democracy PDP and Nigerians enjoy today, so he should be the very last of the
Presidential candidates to be accused of undemocratic conduct or underhand
dealings in the electoral process.
“The PDP should not
joke or play politics with grave security matters. Having ‘credible
information’ as to plots and individuals relating to the attack on INEC offices
currently, further plots to disrupt elections is, indeed, a matter of national
security.”
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