The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alleged that the All Progressives Congress, APC, is planning to take over states which the PDP won during the last governorship elections. It listed the states in contention as Akwa-Ibom, Rivers and Delta.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, who raised this concern before newsmen in Abuja yesterday, alleged plot by the APC to take over three states in the South-South through judicial pronouncements.
This alarm is coming on the heels of the resolve by the national leadership of the APC to challenge the outcome of the governorship elections in the three states in court.
Metuh alleged that there is connivance between the APC, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and security officials to arm-twist the judiciary to upturn the verdict given in its favour in those states by the electoral body.
According to him, “As we speak, APC has resorted to instigating crisis, inciting the people while mobilizing resources to arm-twist the judiciary ostensibly to torpedo the will of the people in these states.
“In particular, our findings show that in Delta, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom states, the APC machinery is working round the clock to ensure that it upturned the victory of the PDP and the mandate freely given to us by the people in these states.
“We are aware of the clandestine moves by the APC to procure and compromise some stakeholders in the elections, including INEC and security personnel to bear false witness and doctor electoral materials against the PDP at the tribunal.
“This is in addition to sponsoring negative publications in some section of the media, laced with false claims and distortion of election figures to suit their nefarious plans of swaying public opinion and the course of justice against our party in these states.
“We know that the main aim behind APC’s desperation to take over these three states is its belief that they are strategic to the PDP and that taking them away will further weaken and undermine our party and accelerate the quest for a one-party state in our country,” Metuh said.
The PDP went on to emphasize its readiness to mobilise members of the party to challenge any process that would make it lose the three oil states to the APC.
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