Nigeria's main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), today confronted President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing his government of funding ethnic militias to ignite crisis before, during and after the forthcoming general elections.
Beside, the opposition party alleged that N9bn was paid out to some former militants and ethnic militias with the intention of mobilising them to disrupt the polls.
In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party argued that the protests by members of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra last week, calling for the removal of the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, was encouraged by Federal Government as part of its continuing efforts to sabotage the elections.
APC further stated that the next group that had been mobilised to protest against the INEC boss alongside the use of card reader was the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), which the opposition party is also said to be a beneficiary of the N9bn payout, “ostensibly for pipeline protection, but in reality to prepare the ethnic militias for their reprehensible role in scuttling the elections."
According to the APC, "A profligate government that has been bribing people with dollars and ferrying huge funds around practically to buy votes has outdone itself by paying out all of N9bn to a few Nigerians, with less than three weeks to the elections.
"Shortly after the payment, some self-serving groups started organising protests that, for all intents and purposes, are being orchestrated to scuttle the polls. This is a shameful show by the Federal Government."
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