APC Exposes Plans By The PDP/Jonathan
Administration To Manipulate 2015 General
Elections, Implicate Opposition Leaders
Being the text of a press conference addressed by the
National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Lagos on
Wednesday, March 4th 2015
Good morning gentlemen and welcome to this press
conference.
It's just about three weeks to the start of the
rescheduled 2015 general elections, and the expectations
across the country and outside our borders are very
high, just as the tension among Nigerians!
The eyes of the world are focused on our country,
Nigeria, to organize a free, fair, credible and violence-
free election that will not only deepen our democracy
but will also show to the world that our leadership
position in the West African sub-region and the African
continent is not a fluke.
While we in the All Progressives Congress (APC), and
definitely most Nigerians, also expect nothing less than
very transparent elections, indications are that those at
the helms have grown so desperate that they do not
even want the elections to hold. And even if the
elections must hold at all, they must be held on their
own terms: No PVCs, No Car Readers, No Jega, and the
military must be deployed to intimidate voters!
These dangerous conditionalities by the ruling party,
the PDP, and the Jonathan Administration have been
playing out publicly, no thanks to the inauspicious
comments by elements of the ruling party, who could no
longer hide their disdain for credible polls and, indeed,
for democracy itself.
But what has not played out openly are some of the
criminal and unlawful actions being secretly hatched by
the PDP and the Jonathan Administration to rig the
forthcoming general elections and perpetuate
themselves in power.
The handwriting is clear: This Administration knows it
can never win in a free, fair and credible elections
because of its appalling record in office. Nigerians want
change through the ballot box, and they are determined
to effect that change with their PVCs.
Let me now take you through some of those evil plots
being hatched to deny the people of Nigerians their
right to vote for change.
1. There is a plot to transfer a humongous amount of
money into the bank account of the INEC Chairman,
Prof. Attahiru Jega, and then claim that the money
came from Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC in
order to justify the ongoing plan to sack Prof. Jega so he
won't organize the elections.
Beyond Jega, there is also a plan to credit the bank
accounts of some key national institutions with huge
amounts of money purportedly from our party, the APC,
ostensibly to compromise those institutions.
2. There is plan to use some political parties that are
satellites of the PDP to push for the postponement of the
elections again. The plot is to get the parties to address
a press conference to say the elections should not hold
in the North-east until Sept. 2015 because of the
ongoing counter-insurgency battle there. The intention
is to make sure Jega's tenure expires before the polls, so
that they can appoint a malleable card-carrying
member of the PDP as INEC Chair to conduct the polls.
3. There a plan to use the security agencies to
intimidate key opposition leaders as well as the Nigerian
Communications Commission (NCC) and
telecommunications service providers to disrupt voice
and data transmission, especially in APC strongholds, on
election day.
As we have said earlier, the telephones of our leaders
have been bugged and their movements are being daily
monitored.
Top on the list of the security agencies to be used
against the opposition is the DSS, which will be used to
compel all Resident Electoral Commissioners in the 36
states and the Federal Capital Territory to hand over
the names and telephone numbers of all INEC's regular
and ad
hoc staff who will conduct the elections, as part of the
Jonathan Administration's rigging plans.
It is no longer news that a signal has been sent to all
state commands of the DSS to get the list of all INEC
Returning Officers and Adhoc Staff before March 10th.
4. There is also the ongoing illegal recruitment over 500
new cadets into one of the country's security outfits,
50% of whom are from the home state of the outfit's
top brass, in violation of the provisions of the
Constitution, especially as the recruitment does not
reflect the Federal Character
5. Nocturnal meetings are being held between various
heads of national security agencies and the leadership
of the PDP to undermine the coming elections;
6. The Presidency has retained the services of two
Israelis and a Belgian who are currently holed up in the
Aso Rock Villa to hack and corrupt INEC computers on
election day, with the trio having already been paid 25
percent of their contract fees upfront.
7. There is an ongoing effort to compromise the card
reader, which the Jonathan Administration sees as
inimical to its rigging plans.
8. Huge funds are being provided for retired and
serving security personnel to buy up PVCs, with the
hope that they can be used once the card reader is
compromised. Remember, gentlemen, that there is a
case in court seeking to declare the use of the card
reader in the forthcoming elections unconstitutional.
9. In the days leading up to the elections, the Jonathan
Administration is planning to give the opposition the
Ekiti treatment by massively arresting key opposition
leaders, with a view to destabilizing their ranks, putting
them away and paving the way for a free rein of their
rigging agents. Towards this end, thousands of signed
blank detention orders have been procured.
10. As part of the plan to implicate our leaders, illegal
substances may be put into their checked-in luggage
during local and international flights. That is why we
are calling on our leaders to travel only with their
carry-on baggage.
Let me say that the detailed plans by the desperate
Jonathan Administration and the PDP are part of the
massive intelligence we are receiving daily from
patriotic Nigerians, within and outside the government,
who are eager to see the organization of a free, fair,
credible and violence-free elections that will catapult
Nigeria to the league of truly democratic nations.
We have decided to share the information we are
receiving with Nigerians because we believe that no
power is strong enough to stop a people who are
determined to effect change in the way and manner
they are being governed, and that the ultimate power
resides in the people.
We have no doubt that the information will fortify the
local and international observers who are coming for
the elections, in addition to enhancing the vigilance of
the citizenry before, during and after the polls.
I thank you for listening
Alhaji Lai Mohammed
National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)
Lagos, March 4th 2015
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