The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) has engaged in raising false alarms in a dangerous mind games capable of pushing the country to chaos.
The national publicity secretary of the PDP,Olisa Metuh, released a statement in Abuja, on Monday in which he noted that APC resorted to the practice because it was now confronted with the reality of failure in the coming election Nigerian Tribune reports.
Chief Olisa-Metuh, National Secretary PDP
The statement said: “having been exposed in its hypocrisy, lies and empty promises, the APC in obvious frustration is now engaged in dangerous mind game using wild allegations in a bid to cause panic in the country.
“For the APC, it has become a matter of ‘if we can’t have it, then let’s destroy it’. In the last couple of weeks, this opposition party and its leaders have engaged in dishing out dangerous false alarms in a bid to discredit the electoral process, heighten tension, create fear in the minds of the people and push the polity to the brinks.
“For instance, how else would one explain the false alarm by the leader of the opposition, Bola Tinubu on Thursday, March 12, alleging that there were plots to assassinate him, a phantom claim which was followed on Sunday, March 15 by the APC, in a statement that there were plans to kill their presidential standard bearer, General Muhammadu Buhari.”
The PDP recalled that on the same March 15, the APC falsely claimed that the Federal Government paid N9 billion to ethnic militias to foment trouble, before, during and after the general election.
It said this was immediately followed by a release on Monday, March 16, in which the opposition, in their unrelenting effort, according to the statement to further discredit the process, alleged that the Federal Government has hired an Israeli expert, Gyora Berger, to sabotage card readers on election day.
The PDP added: “In the same vein, on March 4, 2015, the APC released a false alarm, claiming that there were plots by the Federal Government to frame its leaders and sensitive INEC officials and manipulate the electoral process. This is in addition to another statement on March 9, in which it alleged of plots to harass its financiers and cripple its operations ahead of elections.
“We are aware that the APC has lined up many of such false allegations and nuisance alarms, which would be methodologically released to the public to swell the tension as the elections draw nearer.
“APC’s history of lies has become legendary. Nigerians may recall that this party in their penchant for deceit had in June 2014 alleged that a plane carrying Kano State Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, to attend a rally in Ekiti State to support Governor Kayode Fayemi’s re-election bid was denied landing permission in Akure, only for Kwankwaso’s Director of Press Affairs, Baba Dantiye to announce that his boss was at another event in Kano and had no plans to travel to Ekiti State.
“It is, indeed, clear that the APC has no positive agenda for Nigeria but on a mission to grab power at all cost, failing which it has perfected plots to unleash mayhem and destabilise the nation.”
The most recent of such alarms raised by the APC was the party saying it has uncovered a plot by the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to render card readers ineffective on election day.
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