Feb. 23!!! APC May Boycott Saturday’s Presidential Election, As Party Chiefs Fear Massive Defeat For Buhari

Emerging report allegedly revealed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, Caucus, have become jittery over the imminent loss of the February 23, Presidential election. 

A Caucus meeting was convened on Monday night, and the National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, suggested that they boycott the election, and withdraw from the February 23 general elections, instead of allowing the Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, win.

Highly placed sources in the APC, disclosed that Oshiomhole further suggested an Interim Government, since the APC will handpick the persons to run the purported interim government.

They vowed not to allow the PDP take over power, else they will all be on the run.

The expanded Caucus meeting, was held at the Presidential Villa, according to reports.

Post-Nigeria could recall, that the PDP had earlier rejected in its entirety, the idea of an Interim Government, which it said is being mooted by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on behalf of the Buhari Presidency.

In a statement issued in Abuja, by Kola Ologbondiyan, the Director, Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, the party said that it cannot accept any form of unconstitutional governance, and a contraption like an Interim Government, because it is confident of a landslide victory, given the overwhelming support which its Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, enjoys among Nigerians across board.

The party’s position was a response to the claim by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, that the opposition was working with terrorists, to truncate the elections, to pave way for an Interim National Government.

The main opposition party added: “The party said a suggestion of an Interim Government, under any pretext, context or contemplation, can only come from desperate and unpatriotic minds in a failed administration, or political party that has lost hope of being re-elected in a free, fair, and credible election, due to its manifest incompetence and humongous corruption.

“Every Nigerian knows the desperation of the APC and the Buhari Presidency, ahead of the 2019 general elections, leading to their resort to threats, intimidation, and clamp down on dissenting voices, as well as, assault on institutions of democracy, in the face of incontrovertible indices, pointing to their imminent crushing defeat at the polls.”

The party hoped that such cruel plot, as revealed by Mohammed, is not the underlining reason behind the APC administration’s alleged neglect and undermining of our Security Forces, fighting in the fronts.

The PDP demanded that the Minister comes clean on the source of his information, “if it is not a plot being hatched by the APC”.

“He should tell Nigerians, if his source was the Police, the Military, or the Directorate of State Services (DSS), so that they can appropriately channel their concerns”, the statement said.

The PDP therefore, urged Nigerians to be at alert, and keep an eye on the APC, in their nefarious plans against our nation, now that they have made their strategy public.

It stated that on its own part that: “The PDP is prepared and ready for the elections. We have been going round the country peacefully, campaigning and presenting our Candidate, policies and programmes, to the electorate.

“The PDP will therefore, not accept any form of Interim Government, not when Nigerians have already attained a consensus to rally behind and vote in the Peoples Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, as their next President.”