Nigeria's opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), today insisted that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), alongside supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan in the South-West, have concluded plans to make the March 28th elections in the geo-political zone inconclusive.
The opposiition party in a statement issued in Lagos by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, insisted that the plot was conceived at a meeting held in the Ondo State Government House on March 13th and attended by Governor Olusegun Mimiko and the Coordinator of the Jonathan Campaign, Tokunbo Modupe.
The APC further suggested that those behind the alleged plot are working in cahoots with the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), and that "The OPC have trained and armed a number of youths with guns and other weapons, in addition to providing many of them with military and police uniforms, which we earlier said were being sewn in the capital of a state in the South-West.
"The highly-disruptive and armed protest by the OPC in Lagos on March 16th was a dress rehearsal for the plan to be executed across the states in the South-West.
"The PDP has compiled and forwarded to the Police Anti-Cult Squad, the names of APC youths in all the wards in Ondo State so they can be arrested and locked up before, during and after the elections, to give the PDP and its cohorts the free rein to carry out their nefarious activities.
"As a matter of fact, funds have been provided to the Police Anti-Cult Squad to expand its detention facility, and work is going on at the facility as we write.
"The reason for these actions is that, despite the massive infusion of illicit funds to bribe individuals and groups in the South-West, the PDP and its agents in the region have realised that their strategy has backfired and even given the people more impetus to vote against the ruling party."
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