In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday
by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party
also said a company, Agro-Allied Communities Service Nigeria Limited,
has been formed ostensibly to provide N50,000 loan each to
‘empower’ women
It said, however, that anyone seeking to get the loan
must provide her PVC as ‘collateral’, which is basically the essence of
the establishment of the company that is supposedly a private concern
but in reality a PDP front to mop up PVCs, especially in opposition
strongholds.
APC said it is now getting clearer
by the day what the PDP-led Federal government sought to gain by
forcing the postponement of the elections for six weeks – which is to
perfect their rigging plans.
The party warned
those behind the abhorrent acts to desist from such tactics, which
reflect the desperation by some people to hold on to power at all cost,
even when it is clear that Nigerians have widely rejected them due to
non performance, massive corruption and profligacy under their watch.
It
also appealed to its members and supporters in particular, and
Nigerians in general, not to sell their PVCs under any guise, saying
that is the only power they have to effect a meaningful change that can
ensure the deliverance of democratic dividends to them.
”Our
members have alerted us to the fact that PDP agents have been operating
in all villages between Kobape and Orile-Imo along the Sagamu-Abeokuta
Expressway in Ogun State, giving 10,000 Naira to each poor villager and
collecting their PVCs. The PDP agents are also promising each villager a
monthly stipend of 10,000 Naira if and when their party assumes office
in the state.
”Indications are that this
objectionable PVC mop-up is being replicated in all opposition
strongholds by the frenzied PDP, hence we at the APC have decided to
alert the nation to the reprehensible act,” APC said.
The
party also said that some Immigration personnel, acting under the guise
of arresting illegal aliens with voter cards, are dispossessing a lot
of unsuspecting locals in the northern part of the country of their
PVCs. These unsuspecting people are arrested and their cards seized, all
in an attempt to disenfranchise them.
”This
act of desperation is totally unacceptable and must stop forthwith.
Every voter should be allowed to exercise his or her franchise in
accordance with his/her conscience, without intimidation or inducement,”
it said.”We hope this is not part of the reasons that the PDP
relentlessly campaigned for a postponement of the elections, so it can
engage in PVC purchase and the disenfranchisement of innocent Nigerians
through harassment and intimidation.”
Alhaji Lai Mohammed
National Publicity Secretary
All Progressives Congress (APC)
Lagos, Feb. 10th 2015
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