PDP raises alarm , says APC plotting to implicate us during elections

The Peoples Democratic Party has alleged that the All Progressives Congress is

planning to implicate it in Saturday’s Governorship and House of Assembly elections in Lagos State.

In a statement released on Friday and signed by the PDP, Lagos chapter Publicity Secretary, Mr. Taofik Gani, the party alleged that the ruling party in the state had concluded plans to use printed PDP symbols to snatch ballot boxes to disrupt the Saturday’s election.

The party claimed that this was one of the ways the APC had strategised to implicate the PDP in “their desperate bid to disrupt free and fair elections in the state.”

The PDP linked its source to an informant who was in a strategic meeting held on Friday in Lagos Island. 

The statement read in part, “The meeting which had two leaders from each Local Council Development Area in Lagos and some known thugs‎ held in a popular hotel and ended at exactly 3:45pm today (Friday). It was presided over by the chairman of APC. 

“The meeting also discussed the possibilities of compromising the Independent National Electoral Commission to shift elections in some identified areas to Sunday in the belief that the non-indigenes, who are mostly christains, will go to church and not come out to vote. It is our appeal to our fans to remain resolute and to make sacrifices to make their choice count.”

The PDP’s spokesman stated further that it was calling on security operatives to be on guard to prevent any ballot box snatching.