Nigeria's opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), today raised the alarm that ethnic militias and ex-militants, are now putting on fake police and army uniforms so as to unleash terror on the opposition and disrupt voting, especially in the South-West without hindrance.APC in a release issued by its National Publicity, Lai Mohammed, argued that members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), were seen at Owu -Elepe in Ikorodu Local Government Area this morning, changing into fake police and army uniforms.
The party further argued that the ex-militants had been issued with fake military uniforms and deployed in some areas of Lagos, especially in the Lekki-Ajah axis, to foment trouble.
According to the opposition party, "The ex-militants in military uniforms were moving around in unmarked private vehicles, and their assignments were being facilitated by security agencies.
"In his national broadcast to the nation on Friday morning, President (Goodluck) Jonathan said he was under oath to protect the lives of all Nigerians and the security of the country at all times.
"How can he do that when his supporters have engaged the services of ethnic militias, whom they have clothed in police and military uniforms, to engage in violence and election manipulations?
”If indeed the President means what he said, when he warned, in his broadcast, that ‘all necessary measures have been put in place to ensure that any persons, who breach the peace or cause public disorder during or after the elections are speedily apprehended and summarily dealt with according to our laws’, then he should immediately call his supporters to order and direct the security agencies to arrest those going around in fake police and military uniforms."
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