PDP Uncovers APC’s Plots To Disrupt Guber Polls

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State has raised fresh alarm over suspected plots by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to disrupt the governorship and state House of Assembly elections in the state tomorrow.
A statement signed on behalf of the state PDP Chairman, Bro Felix Obuah, by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Jerry Needam, reads, “The attention of the Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers State, Bro Felix Obuah has been drawn to yet another plot by a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to live true to their threats by throwing the State into turmoil during the Saturday, March 9, 2019 Governorship and State Assembly Elections.
“Among others, according to the information, the faction of the APC has printed Election Monitoring Tags for their thugs to disguise as both agents of other political parties and other authorized monitors to enable them have access to the polling units and collation centres to wreak havoc and seize the opportunity to snatch the ballot boxes.
“It should be noted, and the security agencies should also be reminded and duly informed that the APC is not taking part in the elections and has no business deploying their agents and, or thugs to the polling units and collation centres during the Saturday, March 9, 2019, Governorship and State House of Assembly elections in Rivers State.
“We know these APC members in our different communities and polling units, therefore we urge our teeming supporters and indeed all Rivers people to report to security agents any member of the APC seen wearing any tags under any guise howsoever, on election day, on Saturday, March 9, 2019.
“The general public should please take note and remain alert to checkmate these miscreants and protect your votes”, the party added.
Meanwhile, barely 48 hours to the Governorship and State House of Assembly elections, Chairman of Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State, Philemon Kingoli has raised an alarm over alleged plans by a faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the area to disrupt Saturday’s election.
Kingoli, who disclosed this to newsmen, yesterday, said part of the plot was to come up with an unsubstantiated allegation against him in order to pave the way for hoodlums to unleash mayhem in Okrika.
He further alleged that a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the area, David Okumgba had led some security operatives to hijack election materials in Okrika, insisting that people saw him carrying out the illegal act.
Earlier, Okumgba had accused Kingoli of threatening members of the APC not to come out for Saturday’s polls in the area.
But in his reaction, Kingoli described the allegations of the APC chieftain as cheap blackmail, pointing out that it was the same approach the APC adopted to bring soldiers into the area in the guise of receiving information of hired thugs coming into the area with weapons to cause havoc during the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections.

Dennis Naku