Political foot soldiers of President Goodluck Jonathan and leaders of the newly registered All Progressive Congress (APC) yesterday took the 2015 political battle to Washington, DC, USA.
Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and PSN, the organizers of an event
entitled: ‘The Second Session of Nigeria Election Forum,’ said that the discussion was important as it would highlight the critical roles and responsibilities of Nigeria’s political leaders, candidates and party supporters in laying the foundations for peaceful and credible elections in 2015.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) delegation which included Dr. Doyin Okupe, a senior special assistant for Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan, Delta State governor Emmanuel Uduaghan and other party supporters promised that the PDP-led administration in Nigeria would ensure
that all the elections in 2015 are conducted according to the rules.
They further said that the government was doing everything to ensure that there is no post-elections violence in 2015, like the ones that erupted shortly after the announcement of the last general elections in 2011.
The PDP delegation however asked Nigerians and the international community to disregard recent claims by chieftains of the opposition party, APC, where they said that the fifteen years of PDP government in Nigeria was a waste, pointing that the Transformation Agenda of Mr. President had brought several positive changes to the country.
They also asked the opposition to desist from the act of blaming everything that happens in the country on President Jonathan and his administration.
On insecurity, President Jonathan’s men promised that the federal government would do everything at its disposal to tackle insurgency and killings of innocent souls before the commencement of the 2015 general elections.
They accused some enemies of the PDP-led administration of promoting Boko Haram members in order to cause crisis in the country during the elections, but he added that the security agencies in the country were now better equipped to foil the plan.
In a counter reaction, the delegation of the APC which had the party’s national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Senator Babafemi Ojudu from Ekiti State, Zamfara State governor, Ahlaji Abdul’aziz Yari, and others, said that the opposition party would work with Nigeria’s security agencies to ensure that credible elections are conducted in the country in 2015.
Criticizing the threats by the PDP to recapture the South West and some other strongholds of the APC, the delegation said that the opposition party would diplomatically and peacefully resist every attempts to manipulate the 2015 general elections by the ruling party.
They insisted that the ruling PDP had nothing to show as its major achievements since it had been ruling the country in 1999, and claimed that the Nigeria’s electorate would begin to experience positive changes that would be effected by the APC-led government in 2015.
The delegation noted that record had been set straight as a result of the immeasurable achievements that had been recorded in all the APC-controlled states all over the federation.
The APC members however said that Professor Attahiru Jega’s leadership of the INEC doesn’t have what it takes to conduct credible elections in 2015, stressing that the general elections would determine the existence of the country.
They alleged that Jega who could not conduct a credible governorship election in just Anambra state should not be fully entrusted with the supervision of the 2015 general elections.
Furthermore, they said that the APC would not assassinate anybody’s character during its campaigns but noted that the party’s campaigns would be based on its immeasurable achievements in all its strongholds and the achievements would help the party to dislodge the ruling PDP in 2015.
According to Mr. Lai Mohammed, the APC’s National Publicity Secretary: “2015 elections is not all about one party replacing the other. It will be whether the country will continue to stay as one single country. This is why we in APC must be able to make the ultimate sacrifice to rescue Nigeria. APC will dislodged the PDP because we will not only field candidates for all elective offices in the 2015 elections but we will win the majority of seats in the elections at all levels”
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