PDP planning to turn Lagos into a war zone - APC

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has warned Lagosians against voting the Peoples Democratic Party in the forthcoming elections, saying doing so would turn the state into “a theatre of unending war and violence.”

The opposition party, which accused
President Goodluck Jonathan of courting “violent militia groups” in his bid to win the polls, said Lagosians needed to be alerted to the grand orchestrated plan by the PDP to provoke violence in Lagos State, where “peace has endured for years.”

The APC, in a statement by its Lagos State Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, said the recent rally by members of the Oodu Peoples Congress (click the link if you missed the story with pictures) with attendant vandalism of APC campaign posters and billboards, signaled a return to the days of insecurity in the state, should PDP be voted in on March 28 and April 11 general elections.

The statement read in part, “We want to alert the good people of Lagos of the grand design by the PDP that has supervised the worst security crisis the country has faced since the civil war, to launch unending violence and seek to compromise the enviable security situation we have been enjoying when other parts of the country became theatres of insecurity.

“We want to alert Lagosians that sponsoring and launching gun-totting OPC militias on Lagos streets is the last ditch effort of an incompetent government to launder violence on Lagosians so as to prepare them for the return of wholesome criminality and other forms of insecurity Lagosians have put behind them.

“We want to remind Lagosians that the same way and manner the PDP and the Jonathan presidency are sponsoring and arming OPC to cause mayhem and insecurity in Lagos was the same way the PDP armed and sponsored hoodlums in the South-South, and after elections they became kidnappers and assassins and Nigeria has not recovered from this. The same way and manner was also adopted by the PDP to train and sponsor hoodlums for electoral violence in the North and they were soon to become Boko Haram militants, as revealed by the late former National Security Adviser, Gen. Andrew Azazi.

“We want to warn Lagosians that the return of violent crime and violent political campaigns by the desperate PDP in its bid to overwhelm and conquer Lagos will inflict tremendous harm on their wellbeing and security, if Lagosians cast their votes for the PDP. We warn that voting for PDP, which has compromised the peace and tranquility of Lagos as a result of its deadly desire for power in recent weeks.”

The APC said it was warning Lagosians “to note that the display of unbridled violence by PDP in Lagos in the ongoing campaign shows that Lagosians must brace for a full scale return to violent crimes and total insecurity should they vote for PDP in the coming election.”