The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation
(APCPCO) has issued an alert about a what was described as a dastardly
plot by the PDP and the President Goodluck Jonathan-led government to
scuttle the 2015 general elections.
A statement released on Thursday disclosed that the APC has it on good
authority that the kernel of the plan is to use the subterfuge of the
frivolous litigation by some people to get a court pronouncement (from
one of the Presidency’s pliable judges) to the effect that General
Muhammadu Buhari – the APC presidential candidate – lied under oath in
saying that the military had his certificate, whereas, the military had
denied being in possession of it.According to a statement signed by the Director of Media and Publicity
of the campaign, Mallam Garba Shehu, the counter arguments by the APC’s
candidate’s counsel would not matter because a particular Federal High
Judge has been prepared to do the dirty hatchet job.
The APC expressed the fear that such a wicked pronouncement of
disqualification of the APC candidate would precipitate spontaneous
violent protests across the country.
Shehu said such a scenario would then make President Goodluck Jonathan,
the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the election, to
declare a six-month state of emergency across Nigeria.
He disclosed that the three-week long strike action by the Judiciary
Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) was embarked upon on the prodding of the
PDP-led Federal government as a way to stymie the possibility of a
higher court upturning the lower court’s pronouncement.
Similarly, the APC Campaign said JUSUN has also been procured to open
the court to allow for the programmed court pronouncement disqualifying
General Buhari from contesting the election.
"We are aware of the intense desperation of the PDP-led Federal
government of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in desiring to retain political
power at all costs despite his and his party's overwhelming rejection by
the Nigerian people, ahead of the 2015 general election.
"We have brought this wicked plot of the PDP-led government to the
attention of Nigerians, from whom any government derives its legitimacy.
Nigeria cannot be thrown into chaos because of the selfish and callous
desire of a tiny cabal to goad the Nigerian people into its destructive
path. The governance of the Nigerian people by any person or group of
persons must have the assent of the Nigerian people," the statement
said.
The APC Campaign called on the international community to prevail on
this obviously agitated presidency not to plunge the Nigerian State into
avoidable intractable crisis.
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