The All Progressives Congress has raised the alarm over President
Goodluck Jonathan’s unannounced visit to Lagos State a day to the
governorship election.
National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a
statement, wondered why Jonathan arrived in Lagos late on Thursday.
He said Jonathan had a closed-door meeting with the Peoples
Democratic Party governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje; the Minister
of State for Foreign Affairs II, Musiliu Obanikoro; and the National
Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress, Gani Adams.
Mohammed alleged that the meeting was obviously to strategise on how to manipulate the polls.
He said Jonathan was using the general perception, that he is a ‘good sportsman’, to deceive Nigerians.
He said the President was on a “revenge mission” to rig in Lagos because he failed in the state on March 28.
The APC spokesman added that the PDP had brought in fake result
sheets, which it would use to record doctored figures on Saturday.
He said the PDP was desperate to win Lagos because having lost the
centre, Lagos was the only means through which the party could be
funded.
Mohammed said, “Before the meeting, eagle-eyed Nigerians, who are
appalled by the PDP’s rigging plans, have widely circulated on the
social media the details of the planned electoral malfeasance, including
the airlifting from Abuja to Lagos of a Black Kia Mohave SUV, with
number plate DHQ 340, which was packed with election materials
(especially result sheets).
”The meeting in Lagos was aimed at devising a strategy to distribute
the fake result sheets that were packed into the SUV, which will be free
to move around (because of its plate number) despite the restriction on
vehicular movement during the elections.
”The same President, who conceded defeat in the presidential election
and then followed up with a speech in which he said he would like his
‘legacy’ of free and fair elections to endure, is the one who is
presiding over a desperate move to steal the people’s votes on Saturday.
”How can President Jonathan’s ‘legacy’ endure when one of his last
acts in office is a seeming vengeance mission to lead his party to
capture Lagos, because the PDP sees the state as a cash cow that they
can milk to death, with the party’s gravy train at the federal level,
having derailed?”
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