Advocates Of Election Shift Will Not Succeed, Says APC

THE All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that in spite of the decision by the National Council of State (NCS) that the 2015 general elections must go on as scheduled, proponents of election shift have not given up on their desperation to scuttle the elections.

  In a statement issued in Abuja yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party which described the NCS decision as “commendable and patriotic” declared that the “desperadoes will fail in their evil machinations because no power is strong enough to defeat a determined people.”

  It said the provocative call by the “bogus” Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly (SNPA) for the postponement of the elections and the arrest of the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega was one of the new antics of the election postponement campaigners.

  “It is shameful that those who should be working hard to promote peaceful elections as scheduled are the same ones doing everything possible to trigger violence. Those who should ordinarily be seen as elder statesmen have degenerated to dangerous partisans and shameless promoters of a narrow, parochial interest, at the expense of the national interest.

  ‘’Who does not know that wherever President Goodluck Jonathan’s interest lies, therein you will find Chief Edwin Clark, whether or not it is in the national interest? Who does not know that the anarchic call by Chief Clark and his cohorts are being made at the behest of a frenzied presidency,” the party queried.

  APC also pointed to the “irresponsible and divisive statement by PDP Spokesman Olisa Metuh” as another indication that those working hard to sink the elections have not given up, wondering why Metuh “will make such an incendiary statement that the APC and INEC are working hand in hand to disenfranchise the supporters of the PDP by making sure they do not get PVCs, without a shred of evidence beyond sheer emotions.”

  It added: “Nigerians are undoubtedly confounded that the spokesman of a ruling party will be fanning the embers of ethnic discord, at such a sensitive time like this. There must be a limit to desperation.”