APC welcomes PDP, Presidency’s denial of push for election shift

The All Progres­sives Congress (APC) has wel­comed the statement by the Presidency and the Peoples Demo­cratic Party, PDP that they were not behind the ongoing campaign for this month’s general elections to be shifted, saying both must now back up their words with action by cutting off the funding for the surreptitious campaign immedi­ately.

In a statement issued in Il­orin yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said “having seen that the elec­tion-shift campaign has been rejected by Nigerians, the Presidency and the PDP have wisely backed away from it, that is if they can be trusted to mean what they say”.

However, it called on all Nigerians, as well as local and international observers who had started arriving for the elections, to closely monitor developments as the elections approached, “because the Presidency and the PDP have proven time and again that their words are not their bond.

 

‘’Election is a process, not a one-day affair. That is why we are delighted that some foreign observers have already arrived for the Febru­ary 14th and 28th polls. Now they must pay a very close attention to the preparations for the elections, the relent­less campaign to shift the polls, including through the use of pseudo analysts and the sponsorship of a rash of court cases seeking to stop the presidential candidate of the APC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, at all cost.
‘’We know their last joker is the court, amid the un­pleasant rumours that a pli­able judge has been procured with millions of dollars to disqualify our candidate. But we strongly believe that the judiciary will do all that is possible to keep its integrity intact and not be a party to desperate efforts to scuttle the elections and trigger a constitutional crisis,’’ APC said

 

The party also called on lo­cal and international observ­ers to take note of the threats of violence emanating from a section of the country ahead of the elections.
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