A socio-political organisation, Ijaw Youths Democratic Association
(IYDI), has raised the alarm that the All Progressives Congress (APC) in
Bayelsa State is allegedly stockpiling weapons and recruiting cultists
with a view to unleashing mayhem on innocent citizens to rig the
December 5 governorship election in its favour.
The group also
claimed that APC was plotting to use violence, intimidation and various
federal agencies, including security personnel, to rig the election.
The
IYDI, in a statement on Thursday by its President, Ebifagha Timothy,
and Secretary-General, Tilly Ekaunkumo, stated that the APC and its
candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, were neither campaigning nor setting up
any machineries in motion, as a party about to go into an election as
close as December 5.
The organisation alleged that the state
APC was busy recruiting cultists from outside the South-South state, who
are already attacking and kidnapping innocent Bayelsans, while security
positions are also being attacked, with arms being carted away to
create an arms base for the cultists, preparatory to executing their
plans of rigging the elections.
The Ijaw Youths Democratic
Association said the intention of the APC is to carry out massive
rigging of the polls, using the armed cultists and force the election
umpire to announce the results in their favour, while the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) goes to court.
It noted that such acts of
lawlessness and brigandage, if allowed to thrive, would be spelling
serious doom for the nation’s democracy, stressing that President
Muhammadu Buhari, who is a major beneficiary of former President
Goodluck Jonathan’s democratic disposition, should rise to the occasion
and nip this plan in the bud.
“The only way President Buhari
and the APC can demonstrate the change they profess to have enshrined in
the polity is for them to ensure that a free, fair and credible
election holds, where every eligible voter in Bayelsa State will be
allowed to vote; one man, one vote.
“He is a beneficiary of a fair,
free and credible election, where the incumbent President Goodluck
Jonathan, even had to call to congratulate him before the final results
were announced, so it would be too sad to see him allow an election to
be rigged under his watch and so soon too”
The statement also
called on the entire people of the state to be alert at all times and
not allow themselves or their children and youths to be used to subvert
democracy under any guise, stressing that, no Bayelsan, who means well
for the state, should fall prey to the undemocratic and selfish
manipulations of the APC in the state.
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/10/apc-stockpiling-arms-recruiting-cultists-for-bayelsa-poll/
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