2015: PDP will rig general elections, says APC

Opposition Party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has come out to warn Nigerians that the ruling PDP has already concluded plans to rig the 2015 general elections.

In a statement issued in Lagos today by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the strategy of the PDP to rig includes suppression of votes in areas where the President's chances are slim, using the police and the military.

According to APC, the PDP and the Presidency also plan to use what they have tagged a ‘Third Force’ to:
   •   Bamboozle Nigerians and project the image of a performing Presidency, even when they admit that the current public perception of the government is less than salutary because of its weakness and lack of vision;
    •   Engage in the destabilization of the APC using moles and fifth columnists;
   •   Instigate chaos in the South-West using what they called the ''Old Afenifere Guards'' and
   •   Infiltrate and weaken socio-cultural and socio-political organizations in areas they deem to be unfavourable to the President.

Elaborating on the plot, APC said the North-East and the North-West have been singled out as areas where votes must be suppressed in 2015, by creating an enabling environment for the deployment of ''special forces'' in the run-up to the 2015 elections. To that end, it said the plan involves launching police/military actions in the run-up to 2015, to ensure most of the registered voters in the zones are disenfranchised. ''The reason these two geo-political zones have been singled out for 'vote suppression' is because of what the PDP/Presidency called the 'voting demographics' in the zones in 2011.

''The PDP/Presidency therefore believe that unless the votes in these two zones are suppressed, the chances of the President winning re-election are very poor. Needless to say that these three zones (NE, NW and SW) are considered to be hostile to the President, hence must be tamed,'' APC said.

With regards to the Third Force, APC said it involves railroading unsuspecting credible and independent-minded Nigerians with deep knowledge of, and extensive penetration of the media, civil society, labour, youth, women and ethnic nationalities into the plan, in which they will be given scripts written by the government and sent out to inundate the airwaves and the print media, posing as experts and public analysts to peddle lies and reel out statistics that have no bearing on the standard of living of the average Nigerian. It said that perhaps the most dangerous aspect of the plot is the determined attempt by the PDP/Presidency to constrict the democratic space by moving against the main opposition party which they regard as a ''real threat'' to the President if it (the party) does not implode or is forced to break up before 2015.

The APC said while it is not bothered by the desperation of the PDP/Presidency to engage in unfair and foul means to win elections, it is astounded that a democratically-elected President will resort to actions that are far from democratic just to retain power at all costs.

Mmmmh...How true are these claims? Only time will tell sha...

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