APC acuses PDP of buying PVC for #10,000 each

The All Progressives Congress has alleged that some people suspected
to be agents of the Peoples Democratic Partyhave begun to buying PVCs
and the intimidation of some voters to seize their PVCs, in the wake
of the recent postponement of the general elections.
In a statement in Lagos on Tuesday by its National Publicity
Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said a company, Agro-Allied
Communities Service Nigeria Limited, has been formed ostensibly to
provide N50,000 each to 'empower' women.
APC claimed, however, that anyone seeking to get the loan must provide
her PVC as a 'collateral', calling the firm a "PDP front to mop up
PVCs, especially in opposition strongholds."
The party said it was becoming clearer what the PDP-led Federal
government sought to gain by forcing the postponement of the elections
for six weeks, arguing that the shift was "to perfect their rigging
plans."
The party warned those behind the acts to desist from such tactics,
which its noted reflected the "desperation by some people to hold on
to power at all cost."
It added that it was clear that Nigerians had widely "rejected them
due to non-performance, massive corruption and profligacy under their
watch."
APC appealed to its members and supporters in particular, and
Nigerians in general, not to sell their PVCs under any guise, saying
was the only power they had to effect a meaningful change that could
ensure the deliverance of democratic dividends to them.
It added, "Our members have alerted us to the fact that PDP agents
have been operating in all villages between Kobape and Orile-Imo along
the Sagamu-Abeokuta Expressway in Ogun State, giving N10,000 to each
poor villager and collecting their PVCs. The PDP agents are also
promising each villager a monthly stipend of N10,000 if and whentheir
party assumes office in the state.
"Indications are that this objectionable PVC mop-up is being
replicated in all opposition strongholds by the frenzied PDP, hence
we, at the APC, have decided to alert the nation to the reprehensible
act."
The party equally alleged that some Immigration personnel, acting
under the guise of arresting illegal aliens with voter cards, are
dispossessing a lot of unsuspecting locals in the northern part of the
country of their PVCs.
It said this category of people were arrested and their cards seized,
all in an attempt to disenfranchise them.
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"This act of desperation is totally unacceptable and must stop
forthwith. Every voter should be allowed to exercise his or her
franchise in accordance with his or her conscience, without
intimidation or inducement.
"We hope this is not part of the reasons that the PDP relentlessly
campaigned for a postponement of the elections, so it can engage in
PVC purchase and the disenfranchisement of innocent Nigerians through
harassment and intimidation," APC said.
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