At the commencement of an event it tagged “salvation rally” in Abuja, the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Wednesday, accused President Goodluck Jonathan of using the Boko Haram insurgency ravaging parts of the North East to perfect a hidden agenda to win 2015 presidential election, adding that there was no limit to the length the President had gone in his obsession to be re-elected.
The party also accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of collaborating with the Presidency to corrupt the system and disenfranchise voters in states controlled by the APC.
Speaking about the recent collection of Permanent Voters Cards and continuous registration in 12 states of the federation which it said was a fiasco, the opposition party asked the federal government and INEC to explain why the PVC exercise was muddled up in Lagos, Kano, Rivers, Niger, Ogun, Katsina, Kaduna, Zamfara and other APC strongholds.
Doubting President Jonathan’s ability to organize a free and fair election come February 2015, the party further alleged that Jonathan was planning to use the extension of the emergency rule as excuse not to conduct the 2015 poll in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States.
This was as it protested the inadequate funding of the Federation Account, describing it as a ploy to starve APC controlled states of funds.
These postulations of the APC were made known by the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun while speaking at the commencement of a Salvation Rally at the Eagle’s Square in Abuja.
Noting that the rally was a demonstration of the party’s lack of confidence in Jonathan’s administration, he pointed out that the party has tabled four demands which the President must address immediately.
Hear Oyegun, “We are here today as a practical demonstration of our lack of confidence in the ability or willingness of President Goodluck Jonathan to organize a free and fair election come February 2015.
“President Goodluck Jonathan is so desperate to win re-election that it will now appear that there is a secret understanding that our security forces should turn a blind eye to the Boko Haram Insurgency so that the insurgents can occupy as much territory as possible and make elections impossible in these areas, knowing fully well these are APC strongholds.
“Otherwise, how does one explain that local hunters carrying Dane guns and amulets are capable of dislodging the dreaded Boko Haram sect while our once proud army, which has distinguished itself in and out of the country, has failed? We daily hear idle talks that the President needs to declare total war on Boko Haram.
“Pray, what has the Jonathan government been doing since the moment the state of emergency was declared the very first time? Or is the President saying that he declared and renewed the state of emergency several times only to cage the civil populace so that the insurgents can have a free rein?” he asked.
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