PDP raises the alarm over APC’s alleged plot on Rivers rerun election
– The Rivers state chapter of the PDP allegedly disclosed APC’s plan
– The state’s PDP chairman, Felix Obuah made the alleged revelation
– The chairman cautions military authorities to be wary of desperate politicians
Felix Obuah, the chairman of Rivers state PDP has alleged that APC wants to rig re-run election
The Rivers state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm ahead the forthcoming rerun election into National Assembly and the state House of Assembly.
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The Guardian reports that the party on March 9, alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is plotting to use the military to subvert and rig the exercise.
The state’s PDP chairman, Felix Obuah, who made this allegation ahead the rerun election scheduled to hold next week, cautioned the state’s APC leaders.
He told the APC leaders to desist from pursing what it described as already known ill-conceived tactics of telling lies making frivolous claims and excessive propaganda, and adopt civilised means of mobilising the electorate, if it must be seen as a responsible party.
Obuah further alleged that the APC leaders plan to initiate the militarisation of the state to enable them hijack ballot papers and rig the forth coming re-run legislative elections.
He said there has been several coordinated, incisive, provocative, false and completely misleading statements in circulation, emanating from the APC and its governorship candidate, Mr. Dakuku Peterside, portraying the state as “a killing field, hunting and killing APC members.’’
“The PDP condemns the APC for claiming all dead persons in Rivers State as its members killed by the PDP, regretting that in obvious cases of clash by two cult groups, casualties of motor accidents and natural deaths, the APC continues to lay claim to them as its members. The Party calls on the security agencies to properly investigate all claims by the APC on the killing of its members to ascertain the true source of their death” he said.
The state PDP chairman said the aim of the APC is to paint a picture of an unsafe safe state in order for “State of Emergency” to be declared so that soldiers will be drafted in to supervise and ensure the success of their well planned, scripted and coordinated hijack of ballot papers, result sheets and rigging of the polls.
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Obuah stated that the recent military invasion of some communities in Ogoni is an indicator to the planned use of the military during the re-run elections. He called on the military authorities to be wary of desperate politicians as well as resist being used as tools to manipulate the outcome of the exercise.
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