PDP Raises the Alarm over Plots to Arrest Members in Bauchi | Nairalaw

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it has credible
intelligence that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has plotted
to use ‘compromised security’ personnel for a mass arrest of top
PDP leaders in Bauchi state.

The party in a statement Saturday by its National Publicity
Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said that it was part of the plan
to put them out of circulation and enable the APC have a field day
to rig the supplementary election.

According to him, “The PDP leaders earmarked for the illegal
mass arrest by the APC include but not limited to Alhaji Bello
Kirfi, Senator Abdul Ningi, Senator Suleiman Nazif, Senator Isa
Hamma Misau, Alhaji Hamza Akuyam, PDP Bauchi State Chairman, Hon
Salisu Zakari Ningi, Hon Ahmed Yerima, Hon Samaila Burgah, Hon
Aminu Tukur as well as PDP leaders and agents in the 29 polling
units where elections are holding in the state.”

Ologbondiyan stressed that the party had also been informed of
plots by the APC to unleash its thugs and compromised security
agents to storm polling units between 1pm to 3pm to snatch election
materials and change results and take them to INEC office in Bauchi
for collation and announcement.

The party however stated that such underhand scheme by the APC
would not deter it from standing firm in resisting all aggression
and consolidating on our already established victory in Bauchi
state.

The party added that Nigerians should hold the APC responsible
should any harm befall any of its leaders or members in Bauchi
state during and after the elections.

Ologbondiyan noted that all party members in the state were
monitoring the electoral process; stressing that the party would
never allow any alteration of results as delivered at the polling
units and that nobody, no matter the machination deployed, can rig
us out in this election.