March 9: APC plotting to unleash military on S-South – PDP vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
—Ahead of the March 9 governorship and state Assemblies elections, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused All Progressives Congress, APC, of instigating deploymeent of the military to lay siege to states in the South-South, which it described as its stronghold.Describing the move as provocation, the party listed states affected by the siege to include Bayelsa, Rivers, Delta, Akwa-Ibom and Cross River.
Addressing a world press conference in Abuja, yestersay, National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, warned of grave consequences, stressing that those sowing the wind should also be ready to reap the whirlwind. “Nigerians already know how APC leaders from South-South are going around boasting that the military will use violence to give them governorship election triumph the same way it did during the presidential election, where innocent Nigerians were brutalized and murdered.”
“In this regard, any person who yields his or herself as a tool in the hands of evil should, therefore, be ready to face the legitimate anger of the people.”Meanwhile, in a reaction, Defence Headquarters has warned politicians against dragging the Nigerian military into politics, saying it remained apolitical.
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