Nigeria's main opposition political party; the All Progressives Congress (APC), today accused the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), of being behind the distribution of what it termed anti-poll leaflets, which charged the people of Gombe State,
to stay away from the polling booths on election days or risk being in trouble.
The opposition APC in a statement in Lagos, signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed argued that it could not put anything beyond the PDP and the President Goodluck Jonathan led Federal Government (FG), consequent upon their desperation to make sure that the election did not take place.
The statement reads, "Part of the strategies of the PDP and the Jonathan administration is to depopulate perceived opposition strongholds through all sorts of dangerous measures, and this scaremongering, supposedly by Boko Haram, fits into that strategy.
"They are also the unseen hands behind the advertisement by faceless groups, urging Muslims to vote for Muslim candidates. It is in line with their exploitation of religious and ethnic fault lines to divide Nigerians.
"It is now very clear to Nigerians that the PDP-led federal government does not want the forthcoming elections to hold.
"First, the government sponsored a campaign to postpone the elections because of low PVC distribution. When they realised the number of PVCs collected was growing and that their argument might no longer be tenable, they suddenly used security as an alibi, abandoning their earlier push for the election shift on the basis of low PVC distribution.
"After they succeeded in forcing the postponement, they launched another campaign for the PVCs and the Card Readers to be jettisoned in favour of TVCs, because that will allow them to rig if indeed the elections proceed in spite of them.
"Those campaigning against the use of PVCs and Card Readers have forgotten that Ghana successfully used the same technology in its last elections, and that it is not rocket science."
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