APC Speaks On Allegation Of Influencing Police Postings To Rig 2019 Elections
The All Progressives Congress, APC has reacted to allegations that the recent redeployment of Police Commissioners was aimed at 'rigging' the 2019 general elections, PoliticsNGR has learned.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday described the allegations as 'laughable'.
He said, “A nebulous group which parades itself as the CUPP has made some laughable allegations on some police postings, particularly in Kwara State ahead of the forthcoming general elections.
Ordinarily, the APC would not respond to a group of charlatans running errands for the embattled President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki.
However, since the group has issued the statement as a decoy for him, we would direct our reactions to their paymaster.”
Issa-Onilu reiterated that the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, and indeed other senior party leaders mentioned in the statement were too busy with the party’s presidential campaigns.
He stressed that the APC leadership was too busy with campaigns than to be involved in the childish conspiracies and spurious allegations contained in the statement.
Issa-Onilu, however, said that it was not within the rights or responsibility of any political organisation or group to dictate to agencies empowered by laws how to deliver on specific mandates.
The APC spokesman added that the party believed that leaders with a modicum of honour, should not tread on the path of cowardice by hiding under nebulous groups to make unsubstantiated allegations. He said that the PDP is now scared of its own shadows.
“Let it be known that our party, the APC, has not copied such dubious template from the PDP,” Issa-Onilu said.
He reiterated that “a new and progressive Kwara State beckons through the votes of the people,” adding that the Kwara electorate would decide on the new political direction in the state.
“Kwara State has suffered enough backwardness and underdevelopment resulting from the selfish grip of a self-appointed leader in the state.
“In the next election, the will of the Kwara electorate will prevail,” Issa-Onilu said.
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