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By Raymond Gukas, Jos
The Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) and the security agencies in Plateau State has been placed on red alert over alleged plans by the State government and her agents to pull down bill boards of the rival PDP in preparation for the launching of the presidential campaign of the APC scheduled for Friday.
The allegatiin was raised in a press release signed by Mangna Yusuf Wamyil on behalf of the PDP governorship candidate, Barrister Caleb Mutfwang, BCM Media Team and made available to our correspondent.
In the release, it said “information available to us indicates that the Plateau State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) are mobilizing political thugs to remove billboards and campaign materials belonging to the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) within Jos metropolis and the state at large.
“The premeditated act of violence, we understand, is intended to deceive the APC presidential candidate, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and his running mate, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, into believing that Plateau State belongs to the APC, when the duo and their supporters arrive Jos for the flag-off of their campaigns next week, on November 15.”
According to the release, “by this statement, we are putting the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), on notice, as such wild acts of violence and destruction of campaign materials have been outlawed by the Electoral Act 2022, and specifically contravene Sections 92-93 of the Act.
“We also want to use this medium to call on the Department of State Services, (DSS), Nigeria Police Force, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC), Operation Safe Haven, and indeed all security formations in Plateau State, to investigate this early warning notification, and stop the APC from going through with the planned show of violence, political rascality and intolerance.”
It accused Governor Simon Lalong who is also the Director General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, of inaugurating a Local Organizing Committee ahead of the flag-off of the APC Presidential Campaigns, with “clear instructions to demonstrate that the State is a dominant force in their party.”
It further added that the ongoing plans to “wreck havoc on our campaign materials and infrastructure, is one of the desperate moves the APC intends to use to demonstrate their hallucinatory dominance” in state and as law-abiding party, it is alerting the bodies concerned to help and forestall any act that is tantamount to disturb the peace in the polity.
