OPC, Ex-Militants In Military Uniforms To Attack Opposition – APC

The All Progressives Congress has raised the alarm that
ethnic militias and ex-militants, now wear fake police and army uniforms in
order to unleash mayhem on the opposition and disrupt voting, especially in the
South-West without hindrance.

In a statement in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Oodua Peoples Congress members
were sighted at Owu -Elepe in Ikorodu Local Government Area on Friday morning,
changing into fake police and army uniforms.

The party said the development confirmed 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 the ex-militants had been issued with fake
military uniforms and deployed in some areas of Lagos, especially in the
Lekki-Ajah axis, to foment trouble.

APC said the ex-militants in military uniforms were moving
around in unmarked private vehicles, and their assignments were being
facilitated by security agencies.

It said, ”In his national broadcast to the nation on Friday
morning, President (Goodluck) Jonathan said he was 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 what he
called 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.

It alleged similar moves to manipulate the elections and
engage in massive thumb printing, starting on Friday evening, with purchased
PVCs, which it added was also taking place not just in Rivers but in the
South-East.

APC said the APC agent at the INEC office in the Port
Harcourt, Emma Edeeyah, was arrested this morning without cause.

”These developments are worrisome and do not bode well for a
free, fair, transparent and peaceful election. 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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