The Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that
the All Progressives Congress is planning to
implicate it in Saturday’s Governorship and
House of Assembly elections in Lagos State.
In a statement released on Friday and signed by
the PDP, Lagos chapter Publicity Secretary, Mr.
Taofik Gani, the party alleged that the ruling
party in the state had concluded plans to
use printed PDP symbols to snatch ballot boxes
to disrupt the Saturday’s election.
The party claimed that this was one of the ways
the APC had strategised to implicate the PDP in
“their desperate bid to disrupt free and fair
elections in the state.”
The PDP linked its source to an informant who
was in a strategic meeting held on Friday in
Lagos Island.
The statement read in part, “The meeting which
had two leaders from each Local Council
Development Area in Lagos and some known
thugs held in a popular hotel and ended at
exactly 3:45pm today (Friday). It was presided
over by the chairman of APC.
“The meeting also discussed the possibilities of
compromising the Independent National Electoral
Commission to shift elections in some identified
areas to Sunday in the belief that the non-
indigenes, who are mostly christains, will go to
church and not come out to vote. It is our appeal
to our fans to remain resolute and to make
sacrifices to make their choice count.”
The PDP’s spokesman stated further that it was
calling on security operatives to be on guard to
prevent any ballot box snatching.
the All Progressives Congress is planning to
implicate it in Saturday’s Governorship and
House of Assembly elections in Lagos State.
In a statement released on Friday and signed by
the PDP, Lagos chapter Publicity Secretary, Mr.
Taofik Gani, the party alleged that the ruling
party in the state had concluded plans to
use printed PDP symbols to snatch ballot boxes
to disrupt the Saturday’s election.
The party claimed that this was one of the ways
the APC had strategised to implicate the PDP in
“their desperate bid to disrupt free and fair
elections in the state.”
The PDP linked its source to an informant who
was in a strategic meeting held on Friday in
Lagos Island.
The statement read in part, “The meeting which
had two leaders from each Local Council
Development Area in Lagos and some known
thugs held in a popular hotel and ended at
exactly 3:45pm today (Friday). It was presided
over by the chairman of APC.
“The meeting also discussed the possibilities of
compromising the Independent National Electoral
Commission to shift elections in some identified
areas to Sunday in the belief that the non-
indigenes, who are mostly christains, will go to
church and not come out to vote. It is our appeal
to our fans to remain resolute and to make
sacrifices to make their choice count.”
The PDP’s spokesman stated further that it was
calling on security operatives to be on guard to
prevent any ballot box snatching.
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