The All Progressives Congress (APC), has raised the alarm that the Jonathan-led Federal Government and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have perfected plans to arrest the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu ahead of next Saturday’s presidential election.
Raising the alarm yesterday in Lagos at a press conference was the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, who alleged that the plan was to “decimate the opposition and gain an undue advantage ahead of the general elections due to start on Saturday.”
According to Muhammed, a red alert has been sent to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to arrest Tinubu and anyone suspected to be a financier of the party “on trumped up charges anytime from now.”
Besides, Muhammed further said that “part of the planned offensive against the APC is a plan to freeze the accounts of companies, individuals and organizations believed to be financing the party with the ultimate objective of crippling the party so that it won’t be able to sustain its activities like paying its agents on election
day and other logistics.”
The APC spokesman reasoned that the idea was “to decimate the main opposition party that is undoubtedly
cruising to victory in the coming elections,” adding that, “the same people who have sponsored series of protests to the EFCC on the basis of the same documentary against Asiwaju are the masterminds of the planned arrests.”
Muhammed said his party took the plan very seriously going by the alleged suggestion of Governor Sule Lamido of Adamawa State, who was quoted to have said that, “all that needs to be done to break APC is to ‘kidnap’ two of its leaders,” saying, “Lamido was apparently referring to Tinubu and Muhammadu Buhari.”
He reasoned that the PDP was desperate because the pendulum has swung to the side of the APC just less than a week before the start of the elections, stating that people have rejected PDP to embrace the APC.
He said the President and the ruling party realized to their dismay that the six weeks shift given them to gain lost ground failed to achieve that objective, hence, “the resort to more dirty tactics of framing up our leaders just to put them away.”
In conclusion, Muhammed therefore used the forum to “alert Nigerians to the evil machinations of the Jonathan
government and the PDP to throw Nigeria into crisis,” calling on “our country’s international friends to take note of the desperate tactics of the duo and do whatever they can to prevail on them not to plunge the country’s democracy.”
