EXPOSING FRESH PLOT TO SCUTTLE 2015 ELECTION

If the recent revelation made by Nigeria's main opposition political party; All Progressives Congress (APC), that it has uncovered a fresh plot by those it called anti-democratic forces to use the courts to postpone or scuttle next month’s general elections, then serious moves should be made to ensure that it did not happen.

However, if there are cogent reasons why the court should be approached to possibly seek redress on issues that are not clear, then it is better in order not to experience anarchy in the country.

But in the light of its purported findings, the opposition party charged the country's judiciary   to protect the nation’s democracy.

According to a statement signed by APC's National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party charged all Nigerians to, "Repudiate   the desperadoes and their allies who are behind the plot."

While making reference to the case currently initiated at the Federal High Court in Abuja,  seeking a declaration that Buhari lacked the requisite qualification to contest the February 14 presidential election, as being the first in a series of court cases to be instituted to stop the polls, APC argued that, "We are not surprised at this, because these desperadoes are so predictable.

"They are following the footsteps of the infamous Association for Better Nigeria, which helped to annul the 1993 elections and which threw Nigeria into a crisis from which it has yet to fully recover, over 20 years later.

"We can only appeal to the judiciary not to become a willing tool in the hands of those who will stop at nothing to scuttle the elections, just to perpetuate their firm grip on power.

"An ally of presidential aide Doyin Okupe has revealed that President Jonathan will rather have the military take over than hand over to the APC candidate.

"Though Okupe has made a tepid denial, the revelation has exposed the thinking and the desperation within the Presidency, ahead of the elections.

"We are also aware that up till this moment, the President has yet to repudiate the ex-militants in the Niger Delta, who have threatened the country’s very existence if he(Jonathan) is not re-elected, as if elections are won by fiat.

"When this is added to ongoing moves to depopulate the North-east, which is an opposition stronghold, using scare tactics, one can see that this presidency and the PDP are as terrified and desperate as they can be."