The All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign council for Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima ticket has written a notice to Nigeria security agencies, demanding the arrest and interrogation of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council members.
Newsonline reports that APC PCC said the false alarm raised by the main opposition PDP that Bola Tinubu and the APC are planning to use all undemocratic means to win the 2023 election should be investigated.
APC PCC said since PDP leaders said they have credible information that the ruling party are planning to incite violence in the 2023 election, security agencies as a matter of urgency should arrest and interogate all PDP leaders to provide: “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).”
In a statement signed and released by the spokesman of Tinubu/Shettima presidential campaign council, Festus Keyamo, APC said, “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.”
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The statement titled ‘Law-Enforcement Agencies Must Immediately Invite The Leaders of PDP for Questioning’ read:
“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.
“This Press Statement, coming just barely 48 hours after one of its former officials was convicted by a court of law over illegal acts committed during an election over which the PDP government presided is just a pointer to the lowest level of moral debauchery to which the PDP has sunk.
“It operates without an iota of shame or respect for the Nigerian people. Instead of continuous apologies for those grievous acts of election rigging, money laundering and other electoral malpractices, it continues to pontificate.
“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.”
Keyamo added that “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 suspect that the latest alarm by the PDP is one of a long list of diversionary measures adopted by the party to deflect attention from its crumbling edifice,” Keyamo said.
APC further said, “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.”
