The African People\u2019s Congress (APC) on Friday raised the alarm over an attempt to assassinate its Acting Chairman Onyinye Ikeagwuonu on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
The acting National Secretary of the APC, Barr. Sa\u2019id Balogun, disclosed this in a press statement.<\/p>\n
The party stated that no amount of intimidation or harassments can deter it from pursuing its lofty goals and aspirations in the interest of the good people of Nigeria stressing that they are too busy to engage in hollow exchanges with the merging APC who they described as fruitlessly shopping for excuses, claims and assertions to justify their failures and political inadequacies.<\/p>\n
The party also said it would be pay a visit to the victims of the Madalla bomb blast this weekend as an expression of our people-centred objectives, adding that a meeting of National Officers of the party would hold at the party headquarters next week to commence mobilization and sensitization of Nigerians as they anticipate the issuance of their certificate of registration from INEC.<\/p>\n
Three parties, each laying claim to the acronym APC spoke to the press on Thursday. The other two APCs include the All Patriotic Citizens and the All Progressive Congress comprising, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP and the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC.<\/p>\n
The press release of the African Progressive Congress (APC) reads; \u201cthe African People\u2019s Congress has uncovered plots by some faceless persons believed to be inspired by desperate elements in the so-called merger group to attack and possibly eliminate key officers of the African People\u2019s Congress (APC).<\/p>\n
\u201cThis came to light barely twenty four hours after APC, its National Headquarter, logo, manifesto and constitution were unveiled to Nigerians and indeed Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the elaborate event and appraisal meetings and stakeholders\u2019 interactions that followed at the National headquarter, most officers of the party left the secretariat late yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt about 10.15pm when an officer of the party, Hon Dan Iloabanafo and some administrative staff were getting ready to close the Secretariat for the day, two men came round the backside of the office claiming they wanted to register as members of the party, a feature that has become common place in the secretariat, but Iloabanafo advised them to come back the next day or any other week day.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hoodlums insisted they preferred to be registered immediately, and while the party officer was trying to explain things to them, they pulled out guns and demanded the whereabouts of the Acting Chairman who had left the Secretariat earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter moving from one office to the other and satisfying themselves that the Acting Chairman was not in the office, the gunmen left ,muttering words that were barely audible but suggested that there were other highly placed persons complicit in the plot but preferred to be kept out of the plot.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgainst this backdrop, the APC wishes to reiterate that no amount of intimidation or harassments can deter it from pursuing its lofty goals and aspirations in the interest of the good people of Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are too busy to engage in hollow exchanges as initiated yesterday by Chief Tom Ikimi, who fruitlessly shopped for excuses, claims and assertions to justify their failures and political inadequacies.<\/p>\n
\u201c As the \u201cassemblage of windpipes\u201d which the merger group represents, Ikimi rushed off to the press on learning of the unveiling of the APC and our firmness of purpose; to ventilate a most pedestrian assertion\u2019 such that can only be expected of school-age children or demented teenagers.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs their helter-skelter search for means to undermine the APC continues, we wish to alert Nigerians of their grand plot of smuggling a back-dated application for registration into the INEC, an action that could plunge Nigerian democracy into the woods of lawlessness. For APC, that is most unacceptable.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is indeed pathetic that same people that claim to pursue the deepening of democracy cannot abide by the letters of the constitution and due process.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the merger racketeers continue to fiddle, the APC leadership would be paying a visit to the victims of the Madalla bomb blast this weekend as an expression of our people-centred objectives.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn anticipation of the issuance of our certificate of registration, a meeting of National Officers of the party would hold at the party headquarters next week to commence mobilization and sensitization of Nigerians preparatory to the launching of our about to be registered party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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