The All Progressives Congress (APC) has alleged plot by the main
opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to induce Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) officials and the security agents to pave the
way for them to rig the Saturday’s election.
The party also alleged that the PDP has concluded plans to distribute
between five and ten million dollars to the states for logistics and
mobilisation for the polls.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Lanre Issa Onilu said in
a statement on Thursday that the new plot was hatched at a strategic
meeting held by the party on Thursday to review a confidential report from
the election consultant that asked the party to work out ways of winning
the Presidential elections.
The statement reads “Following the leaked confidential report by the
foreign elections strategists/consultants contracted by the People’s
Democratic Party (PDP) which stated that the PDP’s presidential candidate,
Alh. Atiku Abubakar will lose the forthcoming elections, we have received
credible intelligence on some of PDP’s ominous plans ahead of the
elections.
“The apparently orchestrated arson attacks on some facilities of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); syndicated fake news and
planted false reports on the elections are part of the PDP’s strategies
ahead of the Elections.
“The confidential report by the foreign elections strategists/consultants
has recommended that the PDP take “urgent steps to rectify the situation”.
“At the PDP’s strategy meeting held a few hours ago, the opposition party
resolved to monetarily induce major actors and institutions in the
electoral process with a view to compromising them ahead of the elections.
“In this regard, the main opposition party has perfected plans to share
money to persons and actors considered critical to the success of the
elections. The PDP has also perfected plans to distribute between 5 and 10
million dollars to the States for “logistics and mobilisation” on election
day.
“PDP’s targets in the well-oiled machinery are INEC officials, security
agencies and observers. This is expected to make such persons agreeable to
their rigging plots and other evil machinations. The PDP is also using
faceless bloggers to attack frontline security agencies in the social
media as part of their plan to discredit the agencies.
“We must all be on high alert and resist this real and imminent threat
posed by the PDP’s uncovered plans during the Elections.”