{"id":103218,"date":"2023-02-20T15:49:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=103218"},"modified":"2023-02-20T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:49:49","slug":"2023-protect-inec-facilities-from-apc-tinubu-campaign-pdp-charges-security-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/2023-protect-inec-facilities-from-apc-tinubu-campaign-pdp-charges-security-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"2023: Protect INEC Facilities From APC, Tinubu Campaign, PDP Charges Security Agencies\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Ahead of Saturday\u2019s Presidential and National Assembly elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) charges security agencies to beef up security around the offices and facilities of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from any attacks by the sinking All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The PDP\u2019s position is coming against the background of apprehensions in the public space of alleged plots by certain APC interests to launch a coordinated attack on INEC offices and facilities in various parts of the country with the objective of destroying the Commission&#8217;s BVAS machines so as to cripple INEC\u2019s ability to conduct the elections.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba in a statement said, &#8220;It would be recalled that our Party had earlier alerted of series of designs by some frustrated and violence-inclined APC governors and the Tinubu\/Shettima Campaign to cause widespread crisis, truncate the elections, subvert our democracy and impose an undemocratic situation on our country, just because the APC has been rejected by Nigerians.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Credible information available to our Party indicates that the said APC interests which are bent at scuttling the elections to avoid a humiliating defeat are allegedly mobilizing thugs to launch fresh attacks on INEC offices and its facilities where BVAS machines are located.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Some prominent APC leaders including certain APC governors, having failed in their designs to have the elections postponed and having also been resisted in their plot to use their orchestrated cash scarcity to destabilize the nation, are now allegedly plotting to cripple INEC\u2019s ability to conduct the elections by destroying the BVAS machines.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;These APC leaders and their apologists have evidently revealed themselves as clear and present threat not only to the electoral process but also to our corporate existence as a nation and must be resisted by all.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The PDP therefore charges the security agencies to 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