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| Rt. Hon. (Chief) Funkekeme Solomon |
The Delta State PDP Campaign Organization has raised
an alarm to alert Deltans and put the global community on notice on the alleged
plan by the All Progressive Congress (APC) to mobilize a large number of ex-
militants, move them into a concealed location, provide them with military uniforms,
arm them with weapons and filter them into specific areas of Delta State during
the March 9, 2019 Governorship and State House of Assembly elections.
Addressing the media on Tuesday in Delta State, the Director
General, Delta State PDP Campaign Organization, Rt. Hon. (Chief) Funkekeme
Solomon appealed to caution against acts aimed at destabilising the peace
enjoyed presently in the State in the name of politics and called on the
appropriate international organisations, observers and monitors to take note of
the desperate actions of the opposition party, APC to truncate our electoral
process.
Excerpt is the
full text of the press statement:
PRESS BRIEFING BY THE DIRECTOR GENERAL, DELTA STATE
PDP CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION
05th March, 2019
Protocols,
APC PLANNING TO
USE EX-MILITANTS DRESSED IN MILITARY UNIFORMS TO CAUSE MAYHEM, DISRUPT MARCH 9,
ELECTIONS
The Delta State
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has received impeccable Information that the All
Progressives Congress, APC, in its hell bent, do-or-die efforts to capture
Delta State at all costs, and enslave Deltans with a wicked and confused APC
government, has set a dangerous plan in motion to mobilize a large number of
ex- militants, move them into a concealed location, provide them with military uniforms,
arm them with weapons and filter them into specific areas of Delta State during
the March 9, 2019 Governorship and State House of Assembly elections
We have been
informed that these ex-militants, when fully dressed as military personnel and
armed with weapons, will now be deployed and filtered into PDP strongholds,
particularly in the Riverine areas where they are familiar with the terrain and
in places like Delta North which is easy to navigate, with strict instructions
to perform the following dirty actions;
1. To
psychologically disorganize the PDP members in the identified areas by
arresting and/or placing key members of His Excellency, Governor Ifeanyi
Okowa's Cabinet and top PDP officials of the State, under forced house arrest
in order to dissolve their resolve, quarantine them to prevent free movement to
go and cast their votes and weaken the stronghold of the People's Democratic
Party in those areas.
2. To
frighten and intimidate innocent citizens who will come out to vote on March 9,
harass and brutalize PDP leaders and supporters who eventually make it to the
polling centres in order to stop them from voting en masse and deliberately cause
mayhem at polling units and collation centres, with the obvious intention to
disrupt the electoral process and eventually cause the cancellation of the
elections where they know the APC will be defeated heavily.
3. To give law
abiding citizens and non indigenes residing, especially in Delta Central, the
"Lagos Treatment" by Identifying and violently stopping them from
voting and destroying electoral materials where voting has actually taken
place, just as they shamelessly did in Okota in Lagos state, during the
February 23, 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections
4. To ensure that
they attack the electoral process to disrupt the activities of INEC officials
with the deliberate intention to postpone the State's election to enable them
perfect their rigging arrangements in favour of the APC candidates by deploying
more security on the rescheduled date.
Even as we raise
this alarm, we have it on good authority that these ex-militants have already
been assembled and have been moved into a covert and concealed location where
they will be properly debriefed and provided with their uniforms and arms with
which to impersonate and then put on standby until the time when they will be
driven or ferried to their designated election areas and unleashed on innocent
Deltans who are going to perform their civic responsibility.
Our impeccable
sources within the APC confirm with certainty that the master-minds behind this
devious plan include the APC National Chairman, Ex-Comrade Adams Oshiomole,
former Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, who was recently trounced
convincingly in the Delta South Senatorial election by the PDP and Chief Great
Ogboru, serial loser to PDP, as well as top officials of APC in Abuja and other
APC stakeholders in Delta State.
Intelligence
reports have it that the execution of the plan is scheduled to commence a few
days to March 9, 2019 election. The aim is to suppress the will of the people
and prevent them from voting for PDP, thereby providing the opportunity for the
APC to manipulate and increase the figures from a visibly low turn out, in
favour of their candidates.
We have raised
this alarm to alert Deltans and put the global community on notice that the All
Progressives Congress, APC has declared war on ordinary civilians and Deltans
because they want to "capture" Delta State and turn the people into
slaves.
They have no
remorse whatsoever about the bloody consequences and the actual and collateral
damage of their dangerous plan so long as they "win" Delta State in
the Governorship election.
We recall vividly
that the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, ex-Comrade
Adams Oshiomhole, had boasted and vowed repeatedly and with audacity that his
ultimate ambition is to unseat the PDP and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as the
Governor of Delta State and conquer Delta State as if Deltans are slaves, and
he will unleash the full weight and power of the "Federal might" to
achieve this objective.
And to fulfill
this crazy obsession and insane desire, the APC Chairman ex-comrade Oshiomhole,
has connived with ex-governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, who is still very bitter that
he could not get an automatic ticket as the PDP Delta South Senatorial
candidate and whose "bad belle" for PDP has been increased with his
embarrassing defeat at the just concluded Senatorial election as well as Chief
Great Ogboru, who is ready to do a deal even with the devil himself, in order
to fulfill his vaunting ambition to govern Delta State, and they are hell bent
on turning Delta State into a theatre of war and unleash a potential orgy of
blood bath in the State, once these ex-militants are let loose on the innocent
people of our dear State.
The PDP, as a
responsible, law abiding political party, whose main objective is to give
Deltans quality governance and ensure a State where the people will live freely
as stakeholders and not slaves, will do everything within its powers to ensure
that our members and supporters always remain on the right side of the law.
That is why we are drawing the attention of Mr. President, the hierarchy and
high command of the Nigerian Army and the Armed Forces to be aware of what is
happening in Delta State and to appeal to them to be at the lookout for
impostors wearing military and mobile police uniforms, to call their men to
order to desist from aiding and abetting politicians in their nefarious acts to
break the law, breach the security and disrupt the electoral process.
We are thus
calling on the international community and the European Union, African Union
and local observers to prevail on all the authorities involved with the March 9
elections, including the security agencies and INEC, to exhibit professional
neutrality and maintain a level playing field during the elections, in order to
avert an impending bloodbath on election day. We shudder to imagine the
consequences of their actions if hired thugs are allowed to have a field day.
We must commend
our leaders and supporters who have displayed herculean patience and maximum
restraint and endurance in the face of these consistently disturbing and
annoying provocations. We urge our members to continue to maintain this
admirable and unshakeable perseverance and to turn out en masse again on March
9, just as they did on February 23, to deliver an even more emphatic and
comprehensive victory for the PDP in the Governorship and House of Assembly
elections.
Let us sound it
loud and clear that the PDP will not allow itself to be intimidated or harassed
by anybody as we march towards another resounding and definitive victory. It
has become even more critical now for the people to say NO to APC and we urge
our members and supporters to be extremely vigilant and ensure that every
attempt to disrupt the elections are vehemently resisted, every attempt at
infraction of the electoral process is thwarted and every act of sabotage and
violence is recorded and captured. We MUST Deny these agents of darkness
freedom of action in our various units, wards, local governments and State.
We are fully
aware that in addition to the plot to engage ex-militants as part of the grand
design, thugs have also been contracted and have arrived Delta from
neighbouring Edo State already, and have been instructed and assigned to carry
out the hatchet job to disrupt the elections.
The global
community will be watching Delta State and indeed the Niger Delta States keenly
and we will expose the APC and their dirty tricks for the whole world to see,
if they decide to actualize their plan to "capture" and annex the
South South States by force and rigging.
We thus urge all
the people of Delta State not to loose sight of what is important which is to
remain committed to the ideologies of the Peoples Democratic Party and His
Excellency, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and ensure that no amount of pressure or
victimisation will suppress their right to vote the candidate of their choice.
We wish to state
here that the inherent peace in the State, which the administration of Governor
Ifeanyi Okowa, with the solid support of Deltans, including our revered
traditional rulers and our respected spiritual fathers, leaders, elders and
great Delta youths, is of great importance and must be maintained and guarded
jealously by every Deltan who has the interest and wellbeing of the State at
heart.
Our appeal
therefore is to caution against acts aimed at destabilising the peace enjoyed
presently in the State in the name of politics and we hereby call on the
appropriate international organisations, observers and monitors to take note of
the desperate actions of the opposition party, APC to truncate our electoral
process.
No power can be
greater than the people's power. The voice of the people is the voice of God.
Power belongs to the people and PDP is the party of the people.
PDP! Power to the
People!!!
Long live PDP
God Bless Delta
State.
Rt. Hon. (Chief)
Funkekeme Solomon.
Director General,
Delta State PDP
Campaign Organization.
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