APC Planning To Use NASS Members  To Disrupt 2023 General Election-PDP

Nigeria’s leading opposition party; the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)  has accused  the presidential campaign council of the ruling APC of plotting  to derail the 2023 general election and ‘put our democracy in jeopardy’.

The  party in a statement  issued in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Debo Ologunagba , added that the Tinubu Presidential Campaign  Council has  allegedly  taken steps  to use certain compromised All Progressives Congress (APC) members in both Senate and House of Representatives to create tension in the polity and disrupt the upcoming elections.

‘There is credible intelligence of how the APC Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu allegedly directed his cronies in the APC leadership of both Houses of the National Assembly to  end recess  and use the Legislative Chambers as platforms to promote incendiary speeches with a view to overheating the polity and making it appear  not enabling to conduct elections in the country.

This is in furtherance of the alleged scheme by the APC Presidential Campaign to use all means including APC leadership of the National Assembly to orchestrate security situations that will justify its reported demands to postpone elections as a prelude to the derailment of the electoral process, having realized that it has no chance in the elections. 

Our Party has been made aware of a deceptive design by the APC leadership in both Chambers of the National Assembly to end recess under the guise of being concerned about the hardships faced by Nigerians due to the scarcity of new Naira notes induced and aggravated by the exposed sinister diversion of new Naira notes by the Tinubu Campaign.

Further information indicates that the Tinubu Presidential Campaign, which is reportedly intercepting new Naira notes for vote buying purposes, has also directed the APC leadership in the National Assembly to use their Legislative instruments to pressure and compromise financial institutions to succumb to their cash diversion agenda.

Nigerians can now note the real motive behind the recent statement credited to the APC leadership of the National Assembly where it attempted to justify its plan to reconvene the National Assembly at this time.

If indeed the APC leadership of both Chambers of the National Assembly are concerned about the biting cash scarcity, we challenge them to publicly condemn the reported plot by APC leaders and its Presidential Campaign, to clandestinely swap a whopping N22.5 billion in old N1,000 notes for new ones in Kano and Lagos States for the purpose of vote buying.

We also challenge the APC leadership of the National Assembly to commence an investigation into the N22.5 billion fraudulent cash swap report if truly it is concerned about the suffering and anguish Nigerians are facing in accessing the new Naira notes.  

It is instructive to note that the Tinubu Campaign has not denied the reported criminal N22.5 billion cash swap for vote buying. Instead, it has resorted to hauling of insults and lame diversionary claims.

The PDP advises the APC Presidential Candidate to end his resort to underhand dealings, particularly this attempt to compromise the National Assembly. He should quit the race since he has nothing to offer, instead of seeking to truncate our electoral process.

In any case, Nigerians have since made up their minds to vote enmasse for the PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who genuinely stands with the people and embodies the collective hope and aspiration of Nigerians in the mission to rescue our nation from the misrule of the deceptive, insensitive, corrupt and rudderless APC’ the statement said- Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980. Thank you