The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm that ethnic militias and ex-militants are now wearing fake police and army uniforms so they can unleash mayhem on the opposition and disrupt voting, especially in the South-west, without hindrance.
In a statement in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said OPC members were sighted at Owu -Elepe in Ikorodu Local Government Area on Friday morning changing into fake police and
army uniforms, confirming the alarm earlier raised by the party that
fake uniforms of security agencies were being sewn in the capital city
of a South-West state.
It also said ex-militants have been issued with fake military uniforms
and deployed to some areas of Lagos, especially the Lekki-Ajah axis,
to foment trouble.
APC said the ex-militants in military uniforms are moving around in
unmarked private vehicles, and their assignments are being facilitated
by security agencies.
”In his national broadcast to the nation on Friday morning, President
Jonathan said he is under oath to protect the lives of all Nigerians
and the security of the country at all times. How can he do that when
his supporters have engaged the services of ethnic militias, whom they
have clothed in police and military uniforms, to engage in violence
and election manipulations?
”If indeed the President means what he said, when he warned in his
broadcast that ‘all necessary measures have been put in place to
ensure that any persons who breach the peace or cause public disorder
during or after the elections are speedily apprehended and summarily
dealt with according to our laws’, then he should immediately call his
supporters to order and direct the security agencies to arrest those
going around in fake police and military uniforms,” APC said.
Meanwhile, the party has also alerted the nation to the brazen actions to rig the elections in Rivers State, where all original results sheets have been removed and photocopied to pave the way for the PDP to write fake results of the elections in the state. Similar moves to manipulate the elections and engage in massive thumb printing, starting on Friday evening, with purchased PVCs are also taking place
not just in Rivers but in the South-east.
It said the APC agent at the INEC office in the Port Harcourt, Hon. Emma Edeeyah, was arrested this morning without cause.
”These developments are worrisome and do not bode well for a free, fair, transparent and peaceful elections. We are therefore calling on local and international observers to pay a close attention to these desperate measures aimed at thwarting the will of the people,” APC said.
