(APC) has raised the alarm that
some people suspected to be
agents of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) have resorted to
underhand tactics, including the
purchase of PVCs
and the
intimidation of some voters to
seize their PVCs, in the wake of
the recent postponement of the
general elections.
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
