Security agencies have been charged by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to place the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and some members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, on the security watchlist.
gathered that the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba stated this during a press conference at the party headquarters in Abuja on Friday.
Ologunagba made the call over an alleged plan by the APC to derail the conduct of the 2023 general elections.
He claimed that the ruling party is also blackmailing “critical election stakeholders to accede to its design to postpone the 2023 elections, particularly the February 25, 2023, Presidential election.”
PDP said following the charge given to the APC supporters by Tinubu in London that power was not served a la carte, the party had alerted the nation of “a well-oiled plot by the APC to orchestrate security situation and promote circumstances to warrant the postponement of the 2023 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).”
The PDP is therefore demanding that “Security Agencies should place APC leaders on a watchlist and take urgent steps to halt APC’s implementation of Tinubu’s directives to his party members, as contained in the recently leaked video, to deploy violence and underhand dealings in the 2023 general elections.”
He warned that “Nigerians are ready for the election and will not accept any postponement of elections under any guise whatsoever. Nigerians are not ready to continue with a hopelessly corrupt, miserably incompetent and viciously insensitive political party, the APC, which has mortgaged the future of our country with an accumulated N77 trillion debt as revealed by the Debt Management Office (DMO).
“This explains why the APC and its Presidential Candidate continue to promote and encourage violence in various parts of our country including attacking INEC facilities.”
