The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm
over the relentless scheming by the Jonathan
Administration and the PDP to push for another
postponement of the 2015 general elections, unless they
can perfect a rigging plan, and called for the imposition of
global sanctions on whoever scuttles the polls .
In a statement , Sunday, by its National Publicity Secretary,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the multi-pronged
efforts to prevent the elections from holding as rescheduled
include the use of some 23 portfolio political parties to seek
a further shift in the election dates and the destabilization of
INEC’s election plan through the orchestrated removal of its
Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega.
It said the same 23 satellite parties of the PDP that were
used to push for the six-week postponement of the
elections have again started testing the waters by pushing
for a further shift in the elections in the six-states of the
North-east, ostensibly to allow the conclusion of the
counter-insurgency battle and also to allow those displaced
to return home.
”The plan is to use the same bogey of insecurity in the
North-east to push for another postponement in the
elections. The signs are ominous indeed. The body
language of the President and his party does not support
the holding of elections. They are mortally afraid of losing
because the use of PVCs and Card Readers have thwarted
their rigging plans,” APC said.
The party said while the 23 parties are pushing for the
elections to be further postponed, the Jonathan
Administration and the PDP are simultaneously forging
ahead with their plan to remove Prof. Jega and replace him
with a malleable acting Chairman whom, they believe, will
do their bidding.
”Once they remove Jega, his replacement will either seek
more time to organize the polls or simply jettison the plan
to use Card Readers, thereby opening the door for those
who have been buying up PVCs to use them.
”Is it not interesting that the same Administration that has
been flaunting free and fair elections as a key achievement
has now gone for the jugular of the same man who
organized those polls? Is the man they don’t want not the
same person who organized the 2011 polls which the
Administration has described as free, fair and credible?
What has now gone wrong between them and their poster
boy for successful elections? it queried.
APC warned that the consequences of another
postponement of the elections will be dire indeed, especially
because it will create a constitutional crisis that is capable
of endangering the country’s democracy and destabilizing
the country in its entirety.
The party called on Nigerians, especially the civil society, to
be very vigilant in the days ahead, as the cloud of
uncertainty becomes thicker and the vultures begin to
circle.
It also called on the international community to consider
imposing stiff sanctions on key members of the Jonathan
Administration if they force another postponement or
scuttle the polls.
”We believe that Nigerians themselves bear the utmost
responsibility for the success of their nation’s democracy
and the survival of their country, and we commend those
who have stood up to be counted in the ongoing battle to
have free and fair elections.
”However, we also believe that the international community
has a role to play in helping to check the desperadoes who
are using the Laurent Gbagbo rule book as if it was made
for them, and who will not hesitate to bring the whole
system crashing down on all if that is what it will take for
them to perpetuate themselves in power.
”Nigeria is too important to be toyed with or allowed to go
under. For example, Nigerians make up more than 56% of
the estimated ECOWAS population of 300 million. A
destabilized Nigeria, therefore, is a destabilized West Africa
and, indeed, a hobbled Africa!
”That is why we believe a travel ban and tough economic
sanctions from the international community against these
agents of destabilization will be in order. This is a patriotic
call,” APC said. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS
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