*Asks Nigerians to be calm, vigilant
The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation has asked
Nigerians to be watchful of impending distasteful actions by agents of the
Peoples Democratic Party, as the drama orchestrated by the former minister
of Niger Delta, Elder Peter Godsday Orubebe during the collation of
presidential election results on Tuesday, was the beginning of sinister
things to come.
A press statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity of the APC
Campaign, Mallam Garba Shehu, said that the bizarre show of shame by
Orubebe underpins a larger plot of the PDP and the Jonathan government to
foment crisis and subvert our hard-won democracy.
“Much as disgraceful as the action by Elder Orubebe was this morning, it
typifies the kind of things Nigerians should expect from the PDP and its
agents, in an expression of their desperation and pent-up frustrations
with the popular decisions of Nigerians in the March 28 Presidential and
National Assembly elections.
“We cannot under-rate the frustrations of these people, and we anticipate
that they will not hesitate to do the unthinkable to subvert the course of
the electoral process and, indeed, democracy in the country.
“We wish to alert that Orubebe’s drama aimed at disrupting the
announcement of the results of the presidential election is just act one
scene one in a plot that has many more acts and scenes ahead. The elements
of the drama might involve a breach of law and order.
“We therefore call on Nigerians to be watchful, vigilant, and prayerful
and remain resolute to protect our democracy from the machinations of
agents-provocateurs.”