Purported Plan To Arrest PDP Leaders In Rivers State A Red Herring

The attention of the Rivers State Chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has been drawn to a statement made by the PDP at a press conference Monday accusing the APC of planning to cause the arrest of PDP leaders in Rivers State as the forthcoming rerun elections approach.

The APC is a political party and therefore has nothing to do with security matters. That is the duty of security agencies. No one or political party should connect the APC to such matters under any circumstances.

We recall that the PDP has made such spurious claims in the past especially before the last rerun elections on March 19, 2016 but no such things happened. We suspect that this is a red herring by the PDP to conceal or divert attention from some insidious and mischievous plans by the PDP and the Rivers State Government to undermine the forthcoming rerun elections.

The APC calls on Rivers people to be alert to the tricks of the PDP and reject them come July 30, 2016. We equally call on security agencies especially the Nigeria Police not to allow themselves to be blackmailed by the antics of Gov. Wike and his party, the PDP.

Chris Finebone State Publicity Secretary Mon, July 18, 2016