The All Progressives Congress (APC)
has raised the alarm that ethnic militias and ex-militants are now wearing fake
police and army uniforms so they can unleash mayhem on the opposition and
disrupt voting, especially in the South-west, without hindrance.
In a statement issued in Lagos on
Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said
OPC members were sighted at Owu -Elepe in Ikorodu Local Government Area on
Friday morning changing into fake police and army uniforms, confirming the
alarm earlier raised by the party that fake uniforms of security agencies were
being sewn in the capital city of a South-West state.
It also said ex-militants have been
issued with fake military uniforms and deployed to some areas of Lagos,
especially the Lekki-Ajah axis, to foment trouble.
APC said the ex-militants in
military uniforms are moving around in unmarked private vehicles, and their
assignments are being facilitated by security agencies.
”In his national broadcast to the
nation on Friday morning, President Jonathan said he is under oath to protect
the lives of all Nigerians and the security of the country at all times. How
can he do that when his supporters have engaged the services of ethnic
militias, whom they have clothed in police and military uniforms, to engage in
violence and election manipulations?
”If indeed the President means what
he said, when he warned in his broadcast that ‘all necessary measures have been
put in place to ensure that any persons who breach the peace or cause public
disorder during or after the elections are speedily apprehended and summarily
dealt with according to our laws’, then he should immediately call his
supporters to order and direct the security agencies to arrest those going
around in fake police and military uniforms,” APC said.
Meanwhile, the party has also
alerted the nation to the brazen actions to rig the elections in Rivers State,
where all original results sheets have been removed and photocopied to pave the
way for the PDP to write fake results of the elections in the state. Similar moves
to manipulate the elections and engage in massive thumb printing, starting on
Friday evening, with purchased PVCs are also taking place not just in Rivers
but in the South-east.
It said the APC agent at the INEC
office in the Port Harcourt, Hon. Emma Edeeyah, was arrested this morning
without cause.
”These developments are worrisome
and do not bode well for a free, fair, transparent and peaceful elections. We
are therefore calling on local and international observers to pay a close
attention to these desperate measures aimed at thwarting the will of the
people,” APC said.
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