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| APC leader Buhari and President Jonathan. |
The APCPCO said in a statement released yesterday, March 18, signed by Mallam Garba Shehu, director of media and publicity, that the petition follows the massive terror unleashed on the residents of Lagos by armed pro-Jonathan groups under the dubious cover of a faction of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) on the pretext of demanding the sack of Professor Attahiru Jega, national chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The APC Presidential Campaign spokesman noted that the machete-wielding and gun-bearing pro-Jonathan groups marched round the major streets of Lagos, harassing and intimidating motorists, chanting anti-Jega songs in a manner that gave them away as acting the carefully-prepared script for the truncation of the general elections.
He said, “There was such disruption to the tranquillity of the city that warranted the citizens to scamper to safety in all directions, a foretaste of the violence they plan to unleash on Election Day.”
“Our investigations have confirmed that Monday’s (16th March, 2015) show was a dress-rehearsal for the main disruption planned for the general elections. Lagos, and the entire South West, being a stronghold of the All Progressives Congress (APC), have been marked for massive dishevelment and commotion that would involve killings, maimings and kidnappings.
“Our findings have further shown that the recent N9billion Pipeline Surveillance contract to OPC and some militant groups in Southern Nigeria was the elixir for the latest crude impudence of the pro-Jonathan armed groups. Indeed, the contract award was a subterfuge for the mobilisation of these murderous militant groups for the destruction of lives and properties to force the desire of the re-election of Dr Goodluck Jonathan on the Nigerian people.
“As an opposition APC, we are using this medium to serve Dr Goodluck Jonathan the notice of our formal protest against this extreme show of impunity to the International Criminal Court (ICC). We are aware that Mrs Patience Jonathan is already on the watch list of ICC. The activities of this president and his wife as regards the elections are not patriotic and very unhelpful for entrenching democratic values in the nation”.