PDP Condemns APC For Raising False Alarms

The national publicity secretary of the PDP,Olisa Metuh,
released a statement in Abuja, on Monday in which he
noted that APC resorted to the practice because it was
now confronted with the reality of failure in the coming
election Nigerian Tribune reports.

The statement said: “having been exposed in its
hypocrisy, lies and empty promises, the APC in obvious
frustration is now engaged in dangerous mind game
using wild allegations in a bid to cause panic in the
country.
“For the APC, it has become a matter of ‘if we can’t have
it, then let’s destroy it’. In the last couple of weeks, this
opposition party and its leaders have engaged in dishing
out dangerous false alarms in a bid to discredit the
electoral process, heighten tension, create fear in the
minds of the people and push the polity to the brinks.
“For instance, how else would one explain the false
alarm by the leader of the opposition, Bola Tinubu on
Thursday, March 12, alleging that there were plots to
assassinate him, a phantom claim which was followed
on Sunday, March 15 by the APC, in a statement that
there were plans to kill their presidential standard
bearer, General Muhammadu Buhari.”

The PDP recalled that on the same March 15, the APC
falsely claimed that the Federal Government paid N9
billion to ethnic militias to foment trouble, before, during
and after the general election.
It said this was immediately followed by a release on
Monday, March 16, in which the opposition, in their
unrelenting effort, according to the statement to further
discredit the process, alleged that the Federal
Government has hired an Israeli expert, Gyora Berger, to
sabotage card readers on election day.
The PDP added: “In the same vein, on March 4, 2015, the
APC released a false alarm, claiming that there were
plots by the Federal Government to frame its leaders and
sensitive INEC officials and manipulate the electoral
process. This is in addition to another statement on
March 9, in which it alleged of plots to harass its
financiers and cripple its operations ahead of elections.
“We are aware that the APC has lined up many of such
false allegations and nuisance alarms, which would be
methodologically released to the public to swell the
tension as the elections draw nearer.
“APC’s history of lies has become legendary. Nigerians
may recall that this party in their penchant for deceit had
in June 2014 alleged that a plane carrying Kano State
Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso, to attend a rally in Ekiti
State to support Governor Kayode Fayemi’s re-election
bid was denied landing permission in Akure, only for
Kwankwaso’s Director of Press Affairs, Baba Dantiye to
announce that his boss was at another event in Kano and
had no plans to travel to Ekiti State.
“It is, indeed, clear that the APC has no positive agenda
for Nigeria but on a mission to grab power at all cost,
failing which it has perfected plots to unleash mayhem
and destabilise the nation.”
The most recent of such alarms raised by the APC was
the party saying it has uncovered a plot by the
administration of President Goodluck Jonathan and the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to render card readers
ineffective on election day.