DAILY TRUST
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked security agencies to place the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and some members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, on security watchlist.
Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters in Abuja on Friday, Debo Ologunagba, National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, said the call became imperative because of the allege plot by the APC to derail the conduct of the 2023 general elections.
He said the APC is also blackmailing “critical election stakeholders to accede to its design to postpone the 2023 elections, particularly the February 25, 2023 Presidential election.”
PDP said following the charge given to the APC supporters by Tinubu in London that power was not served a la carte, the party had alerted the nation of “a well-oiled plot by the APC to orchestrate security situation and promote circumstances to warrant the postponement of the 2023 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).”
The PDP is therefore demanding that “Security Agencies should place APC leaders on watchlist and take urgent steps to halt APC’s implementation of Tinubu’s directives to his party members, as contained in the recently leaked video, to deploy violence and underhand dealings in the 2023 general elections…
