• Opposition accuses police of harassment

• No provision for interim govt in constitution, says Adoke 

THE National Deputy Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has disclosed alleged plans by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Director General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation, Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi to destabilise the nation and derail the general elections.

     Likewise, the APC has raised the alarm over police siege on the residence of the Director of Media and Publicity of its Presidential Campaign Organisation, Shehu Garba, saying the action is in line with the ongoing harassment and intimidation of the party’s leadership by security agencies.

    Meanwhile, following calls for the constitution of an Interim National Government (ING) after the elections, ‎the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN) yesterday declared that the 1999 Constitution does not make any provision for it.

   The plan to cause chaos by the APC, according to Secondus, while speaking at the grand finale of the PDP governorship rally at Obio Akpor Local Council, Rivers State on Wednesday, February 11, 2015, was mooted because the APC knew very well that the PDP would win the 2015 general elections.

   According to Secondus, the APC plans to recruit a private army, which would include the Boko Haram sect to use them to rig the elections, mainly in the North Eastern part of the country.

   He also disclosed that Amaechi has imported a large consignment of army and police uniforms also for the general elections.

   Giving insight into other plans by the APC, Secondus said the first of these was to create panic in the minds of Nigerians to scare them from coming out to perform their civic responsibility on the scheduled dates for the elections.

   In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Garba’s residence at the NNPC Quarters, Area 11, Abuja, has been surrounded by armed policemen since 3 a.m. on Thursday, making it impossible for him to even go to the mosque for prayers.

   “Going after the spokesman of our party’s Presidential Campaign Organisation is aimed at muffling the organisation’s voice and abridging the constitutionally-guaranteed rights of the spokesman himself. This is antithetic to democracy and totally unacceptable,” it said.

   The party said coming after the siege by armed troops on the residence of the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Lagos and a similar one on the Imo State Government House in Owerri, it is now clear that the Jonathan administration has finally launched its much-anticipated clampdown on the opposition ahead of the elections.

   “We are therefore calling on all Nigerians as well as the international community to take note of this growing pattern of harassment and intimidation of the opposition, and the effect such action will have on the conduct of the elections,” the party said.

   The party in another statement yesterday claimed that none of its supporters can be intimidated by the operatives of the President Goodluck Jonathan led administration.

   APC thanked Nigerians for their immense and unwavering support, especially since the postponement of the elections, which he said was aimed at dampening the enthusiasm of the citizens, and urged them not to relent.