The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has rejected alleged moves by INEC to shift the coming National Assembly election in Lagos State and few other states. The party sees this as just one of the desperate moves with which the PDP wants to steal the state and says that the people of Lagos will not accept this ludicrous change, no matter what informed it.
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has rejected alleged moves by INEC to shift the coming National Assembly election in Lagos State and few other states. The party sees this as just one of the desperate moves with which the PDP wants to steal the state and says that the people of Lagos will not accept this ludicrous change, no matter what informed it.
In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Joe Igbokwe, the party says that since INEC has decided not to accept the suggestion of staggered elections, which it had earlier advanced, it should be ready to conduct elections at the same time in all parts of the country. It says that INEC should know that the exposed ballots pose serious danger to the integrity of the elections and should have been expected to change the ballot papers instead of hoping to still use the ones for last Saturday’s botched election.
“We were taken aback by the position of INEC, which is not quite different from the plans of the PDP to do everything possible to ensure that Lagos is stolen and for this, they are planning to ensure that the polls as well as the peace of Lagos are sufficiently disrupted to force a state of crisis and confusion. We are aware of plans to import all manners of thugs, mercenary voters and hoodlums into Lagos for the dual purpose of either manipulating the elections in Lagos or ensure the entire state is thrown into one huge ball of confusion.
“Lagos ACN has been inundated with details of elaborate plans of PDP and its hoodlums to cause chaos and confusion in Lagos. We have been told of plans to throw bombs in several parts of Lagos like Fadeyi, Oshodi, Apapa, Iyana Oba, Alimosho, Ikorodu Road and several other places, before and during elections so as to scare our supporters away from participating in the elections and precipitating massive confusion in Lagos in such a way that the elections would be negatively affected and in such confusion, they hope to foist themselves on the people of Lagos, through the most callous means, as we have known them to do.
“We therefore see the present wobbly effort to shift the coming election in Lagos as being quiet in sync with this elaborate desperate plan by the PDP and we urge INEC to jettison it and conduct the election in Lagos alongside other states. We see the attempt to conduct a separate election in Lagos as just one of the many plots the PDP had laid for Lagos and we will not accept it. We will resist any effort to subject Lagos to the whims and selfish caprices of the PDP and we urge all Lagosians to take note of this plot and rise stoutly against it.
“We urge all Lagosians to be security conscious and watch out for any strange movements and bring same to the notice of the security agencies. We want all to be at alert so as to prevent the evil the PDP has hatched for Lagos, knowing that they have no presence and solid support in Lagos.”
Joe Igbokwe.
Publicity Secretary,
Lagos ACN
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