Guber Polls: APC, PDP Trade Blames over Planned Violence
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alerted security agencies in the country to alleged moves being made Governor Olusegun Mimiko, to disrupt tomorrow’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections in the entire South-West by instigating widespread violence.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Governor Mimiko already met with the thugs, who have been trained specifically for the purpose of disrupting the elections, at Oshodi-Isolo in Akure and Iro in Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State. The APC also alleged that a whopping sum of M350 million has been to the thugs at each location for the assignments.
In a swift reaction, the People Democratic Party, (PDP), dismissed as frivolous, APC’s allegation of plots to disrupt the governorship and house of assembly elections in the South-West geo-political zone.
The PDP specifically said that the APC was merely crying wolf for fear of imminent defeat at the polls.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said yesterday in a statement in Abuja.
Metuh stated that the false alert by the APC was part of its plot to heighten tension in the zone and scare away voters from exercising their franchise having realized that the wind of change blowing in the region will sweep them away on Saturday.
The APC therefore called on its members and supporters to be vigilant and to make sure they document all cases of brigandage and rigging across the region, while also alerting local and international observers to pay a close attention to the conduct of the elections in the region, as well as in other flash points like Rivers State, on Saturday.
