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| Publicity Secretary of the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Joe Igbokwe |
The opposition party, which accused
President Goodluck Jonathan of courting “violent militia groups” in his
bid to win the polls, said Lagosians needed to be alerted to the grand
plan by the PDP to provoke violence in Lagos State, where “peace has
endured for years.”
The APC, in a statement by its Lagos
State Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, said the recent rally by members
of the Oodua Peoples Congress, with attendant vandalism of APC campaign
posters and billboards signalled a return to the days of insecurity in
the state, should PDP be voted in the forthcoming March 28 and April 11
general elections.
State Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, said the recent rally by members
of the Oodua Peoples Congress, with attendant vandalism of APC campaign
posters and billboards signalled a return to the days of insecurity in
the state, should PDP be voted in the forthcoming March 28 and April 11
general elections.
The statement read in part, “We want to
alert the good people of Lagos to the grand design by the PDP that has
supervised the worst security crisis the country since the civil war, to
launch unending violence and seek to compromise the enviable security
situation we have been enjoying when other parts of the country became
theatres of insecurity.
alert the good people of Lagos to the grand design by the PDP that has
supervised the worst security crisis the country since the civil war, to
launch unending violence and seek to compromise the enviable security
situation we have been enjoying when other parts of the country became
theatres of insecurity.
“We want to alert Lagosians that
sponsoring and launching gun-toting OPC militias on Lagos streets is the
last ditch effort of an incompetent government to launch violence on
Lagosians so as to prepare them for the return of wholesome criminality
and other forms of insecurity that Lagosians have put behind them.
sponsoring and launching gun-toting OPC militias on Lagos streets is the
last ditch effort of an incompetent government to launch violence on
Lagosians so as to prepare them for the return of wholesome criminality
and other forms of insecurity that Lagosians have put behind them.
“We want to remind Lagosians that the
same way and manner the PDP and the Jonathan presidency are sponsoring
and arming OPC to cause mayhem and insecurity in Lagos was the same way
the PDP armed and sponsored hoodlums in the South-South, and after
elections they became kidnappers and assassins and Nigeria has not
recovered from this. The same way and manner was also adopted by the PDP
to train and sponsor hoodlums for electoral violence in the North and
they were soon to become Boko Haram militants, as revealed by the late
former National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi.
same way and manner the PDP and the Jonathan presidency are sponsoring
and arming OPC to cause mayhem and insecurity in Lagos was the same way
the PDP armed and sponsored hoodlums in the South-South, and after
elections they became kidnappers and assassins and Nigeria has not
recovered from this. The same way and manner was also adopted by the PDP
to train and sponsor hoodlums for electoral violence in the North and
they were soon to become Boko Haram militants, as revealed by the late
former National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi.
“We want to warn Lagosians that the
return of violent crime and violent political campaigns by the desperate
PDP in its bid to overwhelm and conquer Lagos will inflict tremendous
harm on their wellbeing and security, if Lagosians cast their votes for
the PDP. We warn that voting for PDP, which has compromised the peace
and tranquillity of Lagos as a result of its deadly desire for power in
recent weeks.”
return of violent crime and violent political campaigns by the desperate
PDP in its bid to overwhelm and conquer Lagos will inflict tremendous
harm on their wellbeing and security, if Lagosians cast their votes for
the PDP. We warn that voting for PDP, which has compromised the peace
and tranquillity of Lagos as a result of its deadly desire for power in
recent weeks.”
source|: www.punchng.com
