Intimidation, harassment of voters will fail in 2015 -APC
The All Progressives Congress has verbalized the utilization of armed soldiers to harass and dismay voters will not work during the 2015 general elections.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, verbally expressed this in an interview with our correspondent, in Abuja, on Sunday.
He expounded that the APC lost the Ekiti State largely due to the unconstitutional involution of armed military personnel who were habituated to harass and daunt its adherents and voters, as well as the obscene utilization of mazuma.
Mohammed verbally expressed it was very unlikely that the utilization of armed military personnel to cow voters will have any impact in 2015, because all politics is local and what transpires in one state may not be possible in another.
He verbalized, “What transpired in Ekiti was possible because it was an isolated election. In an isolated election they could utilize all kinds of dauntingness, the obscene utilization of mazuma and over militarialisation, in the general elections, you can’t have 36,000 security men in Ekiti State alone.
“If they optate to endeavor that in Osun, we optate them fortuity. We will assure Nigerians that we will perpetuate to play the game according to the rules.
“We will perpetuate to demonstrate to Nigerians that for us as a party, politics is not do or die we only want to accommodate.
“But if anybody in Nigeria today, feels that character, performance, accountability, visionary leadership is to be sacrificed on the altar of stomach infrastructure; we are not going to impose ourselves on the people.”
According to him, the party was apprehensive and perturbed but not cowed.
He verbally expressed, “We will go back to the drawing board. But limpidly, we are going to inspirit those of our bellwethers who were apprehended, unlawfully detained to seek redress in court.
“Why we are apprehensive about what transpired in Ekiti is because it is genuinely hazardous in one reverence. Perilous in the sense that what transpired is just like saying, it doesn’t matter we may not have electricity, regime may not be able to provide us roads, our children could be missing, youths could be dying when they are stampeded when they go to probe for jobs, Boko Haram could be ravaging the whole country it is nonessential.
“All that matters is if we are able to spread enough mazuma to a few people, we utilize soldiers and other security operatives to dismay voters this is the woebegone edification from it.”
The party spokesman wondered how the people could abnegate a governor that introduced a welfare programme, who blocked all avenues of corruption and amended the inculcative system.
He further explicated that the outcome of the election has redefined the sociology of Ekiti people, if authentically that is their wish.
He however, verbalized it was the comeliness of democracy.
He verbalized people could repudiate what was considered development and verbally express they don’t care.
He verbally expressed, “All we optate is somebody who can dance Fuji with us in the morning, Azonto with us in the afternoon and drink palm wine with us in the evening. If that is their wish, they get that of regime.”
He expressed confidence that what transpired in Ekiti was not liable to adversely affect the fortunes of the party in 2015.
