The main opposition party the All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused ethnic militias and ex-militants of now wearing false police and army uniforms.
The
party said they can unleash chaos on the opposition and interrupt
electoral process, particularly in the South-west, without interruption.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, APC’s national publicity secretary, in comment said OPC members were sighted at Owu -Elepe in Ikorodu Local Government Area on Friday morning changing into fake police and army uniforms, approving the fear earlier raised by the party that fake uniforms of security agencies were being sewn in the capital city of a South-West state.
The statement also stated that ex-militants have been issued with false army uniforms and positioned to some areas of Lagos, particularly the Lekki-Ajah axis, to provoke trouble.
The party said the ex-militants in military uniforms are moving around in unmarked private vehicles, and their assignments are being eased 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,” the party said.
It would be recalled that the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan has yesterday, on March 26, met with the presidential candidate of the APC General Buhari and sign another peace agreement; Nigerians might be in line to witness a violence-free election on Saturday, March 28.
Earlier this year, all presidential candidates for the March 28 poll and the leaders of their political parties signed a peace accord to avoid actions that could endorse violence before, during and after the elections.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, APC’s national publicity secretary, in comment said OPC members were sighted at Owu -Elepe in Ikorodu Local Government Area on Friday morning changing into fake police and army uniforms, approving the fear earlier raised by the party that fake uniforms of security agencies were being sewn in the capital city of a South-West state.
The statement also stated that ex-militants have been issued with false army uniforms and positioned to some areas of Lagos, particularly the Lekki-Ajah axis, to provoke trouble.
The party said the ex-militants in military uniforms are moving around in unmarked private vehicles, and their assignments are being eased 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,” the party said.
It would be recalled that the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan has yesterday, on March 26, met with the presidential candidate of the APC General Buhari and sign another peace agreement; Nigerians might be in line to witness a violence-free election on Saturday, March 28.
Earlier this year, all presidential candidates for the March 28 poll and the leaders of their political parties signed a peace accord to avoid actions that could endorse violence before, during and after the elections.
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