The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Uche Secondus has accused President Muhammadu Buhari, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu and the military chief of plotting for a total breakdown of law and order in Rivers in order to declare a state of emergency in the state.
Secondus, in a statement signed by hiss Special Assistant on Media, Ike Agbonyi, claimed that “having failed in a nefarious plan to hijack power in the state using all anti democratic means, Prof Yakubu and the military chiefs have now yielded to the design of stretching the state’s electoral problems until there is total breakdown of law and order.”
He noted that the wicked plan was “to stretch the endurance limit of the people, break their capacity to defend democracy so that when they react, they will find reason to kill them and declare a state of emergency.”
According to the PDP Chairman, Prof Yakubu has chosen to keep shifting the completion of collation of election results in the state as part of a bigger plot that will enable the APC faction go to court, create more confusion that would linger until swearing in for a constitutional logjam to frustrate PDP out for the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi whom he described as a willing tool in the destruction of the state.
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He alleged that what was going on in Rivers was part of a larger plan of the cabals to create division among brothers in the guise of helping one of the parties when the real agenda was to have the opportunity to plunge and hijack the abundant hydrocarbon industry of the region.
“Nothing underscores this heinous act more than Prof Yakubu choosing to shift completion of collation results to April 2 that is over 20 days after the March 9, when the election was supposed to have been concluded.
“Rivers state which is the economic hub of the Niger Delta region and the nation’s headquarters of hydrocarbon industry has been held down since March 9 when the military invaded the state collation centre ostensibly to protect the interest of a faction of APC that had no candidate in the election,” he said.
According to Secondus, some credible intelligence available to the party showed that the long stretch of the electoral process in the state was part of a larger arrangement by the federal government and their critical agencies that included the military using the INEC to punish the state for the APC’s self inflicted problem that deprived them of having candidates in the elections in the state.
“The shift is deliberate and intended to help APC regroup for further onslaught on the people, all in the agenda of hijacking power by hook or crook in Rivers state.
Secondus called on President Buhari to note that what was going on in Rivers state which had his in prints has a larger consequence to the democracy and national cohesion stressing that a region of the country that produces the wealth of the nation deserved a better treatment than they were getting.
“The will of the people is sacrosanct and anybody trying to thwart it should be ready for the repercussions from God.”
