{"id":64881,"date":"2019-02-18T18:13:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=64881"},"modified":"2019-02-18T19:26:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:26:36","slug":"fear-of-defeat-opposition-parties-accuse-apc-of-perfecting-plans-for-interim-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/fear-of-defeat-opposition-parties-accuse-apc-of-perfecting-plans-for-interim-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"FEAR OF DEFEAT: Opposition Parties Accuse APC of Perfecting Plans For Interim Govt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Opposition Political parties have accused the ruling All Progressive<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Congress, APC, of using its recently held caucus meeting to perfect plans
\nto cause crisis during the general elections and give room for an interim
\nGovernment.<\/p>\n

The opposition Party, through Coalition of United Progressive Parties,
\nCUPP, in a statement signed by Ikenga Ugochinyere, also alleged that the
\ncaucus meeting perfected plans to have the Chairman of the Independent
\nNational Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, sacked before
\nthe elections.<\/p>\n

CUPP Statement reads:<\/p>\n

The CUPP has reacted to the hastily convened meeting of the outgoing All
\nProgressives Congress and describes the meeting as a meeting called to
\nformalize the planned bloody commotion on Saturday, to give room for
\nwriting of fake results, sack of the INEC Chairman and fine tune processes
\nfor the emergence of an interim government.\u00a0 We have severally raised the
\nalarm that President Buhari was working towards establishing an interim
\ngovernment. Events in the last few days have again vindicated us and for
\nthe first time in Nigeria\u2019s history a siting government deliberately
\nscuttled the holding of elections by sabotaging the processes.
\nThe move to sack the INEC Chairman for standing by the people and not
\nsuccumbing to Presidency pressure to conduct staggered Presidential
\nelections is what has irked the APC the most. The ranting of the APC
\nChairman in calling for the head of the INEC leadership speaks volumes
\nwhen it is obvious and as irrefutable facts have shown that the government
\nwas responsible for the sabotage which INEC suffered and which eventually
\nled to the postponement of the elections. Mr. Oshiomhole cannot follow the
\nwitches to kill the baby at night and then follow humans to mourn the same
\nbaby in the morning. The hand of the the Presidency and the APC are
\nwritten all over the sabotage suffered by INEC and Nigerians must not fail
\nto hold them responsible.
\nThe fear of imminent defeat staring them in the face is the only reason
\nfor such a panicky meeting and that reason is not lost on Nigerians. They
\nhave gathered to develop as they usually do, evil plans to undermine the
\npeople and distort their will. They have just succeeded in heating up the
\npolity and we urge Nigerians to remain calm, not be distracted and not to
\nbe taken in by the grandstanding and usual boastful antics of Mr.
\nOshiomhole for behind all that fa\u00e7ade are inherent evil, mischief and
\nunbridled avarice.
\nMr. Oshiomhole\u2019s attack on the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Akwa
\nIbom State Mr. Mike Igini was simply because the REC refused to make
\nresult sheets of two of the three Senatorial seats and also the
\nPresidential election result seats available to Sen. Godswill Akpabio. How
\ncould Mr. Oshiomhole complain that people are staying long in their
\noffices when he is the National Chairman of the Party in government which
\nnever redeployed any officer throughout its lifespan, brought in new blood
\nto rejig failing appointees and refused to sack service chiefs years after
\nthey were all due for retirement. A typical dirty kettle used by the
\nfirewood stand calling the pot used on a gas cooker black.
\nNigerians must note that the live coverage of the so called caucus meeting
\nwas meant to achieve a dual purpose. First to give impetus to all APC
\nthugs that since the President endorsed all the shenanigans of the ruling
\nParty, that they should go on rampage and also to give instructions to
\nsecurity forces publicly to execute any citizen who tries to stop the
\nrigging machine jointly being executed by the military. The President was
\nunambiguous in his call that citizens should be shot dead extra judicially
\nif they ever tried to stop the security forces from rigging the elections.
\nThat is the most callous public statement ever by a Nigerian President. It
\nmust be condemned by all well-meaning citizens and the international
\ncommunity. President Buhari must be held personally responsible for the
\nloss of any lives due to the instructions he has given to the security
\nforces.
\nThe so called caucus meeting of the APC is a meeting of desperadoes
\ngripped by the fear of imminent defeat and it can only be likened to the
\nlast futile kicks of a dying horse which cannot save it. Nigerians have
\nresolved to send this government packing and make Nigeria work again.
\nNigerians have resolved to vote for a better life. Nigerians have resolved
\nto reclaim their country from the brink of total collapse and restore it
\nto the path of glory, progress and prosperity.<\/p>\n

Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere
\n1st National Spokesperson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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