Being Text Of The Press Conference Addressed By The National Publicity
Secretary Of The All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, In
Lagos On March 26th, 2015 Good afternoon gentlemen and thank you, once
again, for honouring our invitation, despite the short notice.
With the elections just two days away, we are very concerned by the
increasingly-desperate plan by the ruling PDP to rig the elections at all costs,
as well as the growing cases of harassment and intimidation of our members
across the country by PDP officials and candidates, using the security
agencies, which are supposed to be non-partisan and professional RIGGING
PLAN Out of the desperation to win the elections at all costs, the PDP has
perfected a number of strategies to rig the elections, especially in the North
and in the South-west. In one last desperate move, one Alhaji Sani Musa, the
owner of ACT Technologies, the company that supplied the PVCs and the Card
Readers, has been arrested and detained by DSS officials since Tuesday.
Perhaps, the agents of the ruling party believe he may have the codes for the
Card Readers, which is preposterous. Alhaji Musa has also been accused of
colluding with the APC to rig the elections, which is totally false because we
at the APC do not subscribe to rigging under any guise. Another strategy is to
deploy bandits in uniform to polling units to disperse voters by force, after
voter accreditation must have been completed using the Card Reader. While
that is going on, armed police and soldiers will then come in, ostensibly to
chase away the bandits and evacuate INEC officials and voting materials.
After evacuating them to ‘safety’, they will then coerce the electoral officials
to allow them, security agents that is, to cast all the ballots in the particular
unit. This strategy, to be used mostly in the PDP controlled states in the North
and the South-East, will be repeated in many polling units in many states,
because for each state and polling units, there is a calculated percentage
which the PDP must win! Yet another strategy, this time for APC controlled
states, involves the use of carrot and stick against APC agents.
The carrot involves seeking to buy the agents over with mouth-watering sums
of money. If this fails, security agents and PDP thugs will simply disrupt the
voting and destroy election materials. Recall, gentlemen, that we have earlier
raised the alarm about police and military uniforms being sewn in some South-
west states, for the use of trained PDP thugs. The strategy we have outlined
is the reason they have engaged in the uniform sewing venture. There is also
a worrisome development in the Federal Capital Territory.
In at least three locations around the FCT, Jere along airport road, Karu
towards Nasarawa and Kubwa road, security agents have mounted road blocks
and are stopping North-bound travellers supposedly for a routine search. But
the real reason is to collect PVCs from passengers who have theirs on them.
Those who refuse to surrender theirs are being molested. This runs against
the pledge by the government to ensure free, fair, credible and violence-free
elections. Finally, while at least three courts have ruled against the
deployment of troops for election purposes, we have it on good authority that
these rulings will be circumvented by deploying the troops but clothing them
in DSS outfits. They will be deployed mostly to the South-west, with strict
instructions to capture all states in the region, except Osun State. We are
therefore calling for vigilance by our members and supporters in the region to
expose all those who will sabotage the elections. Plan to Engage in Bombing
Spree In Opposition Strongholds Plans are afoot to carry out a bombing spree
in the major towns and cities in APC-controlled states of Rivers, Lagos, Kano,
Imo and Edo, with a view to scaring away voters from the polling units. Ekiti
and Ondo have also been earmarked for Card Reader disruption.
We are therefore using this medium to alert the general public and the
international community to these evil machinations. Harassment and
Intimidation of Our Members Nationwide Gentlemen, as we speak, our
members and supporters across the country are being harassed and
intimidated across the country, using the security agencies, especially the
police. Sokoto State Our members and supporters in Sokoto State are under
siege from the PDP, using security agencies. Former Sokoto State Governor
Attahiru Barafawa has openly threatened to take the state by force. Here is
what he said, as quoted by today’s Daily Trust: “They said we are planning to
rig the elections in the state; I don’t know why they are afraid of rigging when
they know too well that they are products of the same mechanism. Let me tell
them that we will use force, rigging and our ballot papers to send them
away.” With this open threat about rigging and the use of force, is anyone still
in doubt about the plan by the PDP to disrupt the elections in Sokoto State?
We asked all election monitors and observers to take note of Barafawa’s open
threat. Ondo State The police and PDP thugs in Ondo State, acting under
instructions from Gov Olusegun Mimiko, have laid a siege on the opposition in
the state. On Tuesday, Hon. Eniolorunda Omosule, a serving member of the
House of Representatives, representing Owo/Ose Federal Constituency, was
arrested and detained by the police for no reason other than to keep him away
until after elections. APC members who were staging a peaceful walk at
Ukparamu Ward 1, Bolowo community of Ese-Odo Local Government Area,
were attacked with machetes and brutalised by PDP thugs, sponsored by the
Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, with full
police and army protection.
We are calling on the security chiefs to stop these harassment and
intimidation and to call their men to order, before things degenerate into a
free-for-all. Imo State In Imo State, an aide of Hon. Emeka Ihedioha, who is
contesting the governorship election on the platform of the PDP, sent more
than 30 armed mobile policemen to invade the homes of some APC youth
members in his ward at Mbutu in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area. The
policemen fired indiscriminately, smashed doors and windows and arrested
some of the youths, who were detained at the Uvuru Police Station and later
moved to the police headquarters in Owerri. URGENT: And we have also just
been told that all Commissioners of Police in the South-west were yesterday
invited to a secret meeting in Ibadan, where they received a Presidential bribe
delivered in bullion vans as incentives for them to scuttle the elections in the
region by acts of intimidation, unlawful arrests, and turning a blind eye to all
irregularities and illegality that the PDP may perpetrate during Saturday’s
elections.
The Minister of Police Affairs, Abduljelili Adesiyan, one of the star actors in
Ekitigate, also attended the meeting BREAKING NEWS: We have this breaking
news that all serving military personnel and their wives, as well as everyone
residing in the barracks across the country, who are eligible to vote, will NOT
be allowed to exercise their franchise on Saturday . We do not know the
reason behind this, but it runs against the grain of international best practices
in elections. For elections anywhere to be credible, they must be free, fair and
peaceful,.and all Nigerians who are eligible to vote must be able to do so,
without fear or intimidation. CONCLUSION​ Gentlemen, all that we have
enumerated above are just a few instances of what is happening across the
country, with less 48 hours to Saturday’selections. These things are happening
despite the assurances by the Jonathan Administration, given even as late as
yesterday, to ensure a free, fair, transparent and peaceful elections. They are
also happening despite the pledge by the Inspector-General of Police and the
Service Chiefs to provide security for the elections.
We are seriously concerned because it seems the PDP-led Jonathan
government has decided to anchor their rigging plans on the use of security
agencies, which are institutions of state that should not only be fair and
neutral, but protect all Nigerians, irrespective of their party affiliations. The
reason this is happening is because no one has yet been held to account for
Ekitigate, where security personnel, including policemen, soldiers, DSS and
Civil Defence agents – all of whom we have their names, service numbers and
telephone numbers – were wantonly used to rig the June 21st governorship
elections.
We sincerely hope that, in spite of their oath of office, the security chiefs have
not jettisoned every appearance of impartiality ahead of Saturday’s election.
We We hope that as Commanders of Men and Material, they would bear
FAITHFUL ALLEGIANCE to the OATH they took as Officers of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria. We also believe that they will ensure the same for all
those under their Command. Again, we call on all Nigerians in general and our
members and supporters in particular to be extra vigilant before, during and
after the elections, while eschewing violence and refusing to be provoked at all
times. We also called on all election observers and monitors, both local and
foreign, to take a special interest in the role of the security agencies during the
elections, in view of the various instances we have cited above.
Gentlemen, I thank you for your time
Alhaji Lai Mohammed National Publicity Secretary All Progressives Congress
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Issokay!!!



#Change nooni

hmmm. watching in 4d

APC cry and lie too much.

fear of a failure

WOW-It is getting dirtier by the minutes....

Our security agencies have turned to an extended arm of the PDP family. Just too bad. I just wish Nigerians keep sentiments aside and vote for Change. The government of President Jonathan has failed to meet up to expectations I had of him when I voted for him in 2011. For this reason I am voting for change

Vote Buhari
No Violence Just Vote

it is clear APC is losing woefully on Saturday...Defeat n humiliation is inevitable for APC supporters this Saturday.

Do not waste your vote!!!

A vote for GEJ is a wasted vote!!!

PDP and rigging are one
sai buhari

sosanova:
it is clear APC is losing woefully on Saturday...Defeat n humiliation is inevitable for APC supporters this Saturday.

Did u just wake up from sleep? Or returned from a hemp smoking session? APC can only lose if the pdp deploy its rigging machinery, but God will foil their plots!

Change Has Come !

1- GEJ/PDP have concluded plan to sack JEGA.
2- GEJ/PDP has decided that there will be no election on 28 March. They have concluded plan to shift the election again.
3- GEJ/PDP is begging Atiku to come and head interim government.
4- GEJ/PDP has secured a court injunction to stop GMB from contesting the election on Friday evening...

All these lies are from APC. Why are they crying so loud when no one is beating them yet?
What will they do on sunday when they would have lost the election?

I tire for these APCheats

story for the gods....APC u can lie ooooooo

APC is crying because they know they will loose.