APC petitions Jonathan, alleges plot to kill Aregbesola

The All Progressives Congress has petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan over an alleged plot to assassinate Governor Rauf Aregbesola.

 

Also, the party alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party was planning to arrest its notable leaders ahead of the August 9 governorship election.

 

The Chairman of the APC in Osun State, Mr. Adelowo Adebiyi, said this in Osogbo on Wednesday at a press conference.

 

The news conference also had in attendance the state secretary of the APC, Mr. Adegboyega Famodun; Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi; and a leader of the party, Alhaji Fatai Oyedele.

 

Adebiyi, who read the allegations to journalists, said the letter was written to Jonathan in order to officially inform him of the situation.

 

The party alleged that the PDP was working to fraudulently hijack power in the state by using fake soldiers and collaborate with the Independent National Electoral Commission to capture the state through dubious means.

 

According to the APC chairman, the refusal of INEC to use electronic card readers for the Osun governorship poll was a plan to allow the PDP to manipulate the process of the election.

 

The letter read in part, “The President should order his party (PDP) to halt any plan to violently rig the August 9 governorship election through the undemocratic process of militarising the state and terrorising its citizens with thugs dressed in military camouflage shortly before, during and after the election.

 

“It perhaps may interest Mr. President that top on the PDP hit list of party elders for assassination is Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, the incumbent governor of Osun.”

 

But the Publicity Secretary of the PDP in the state, Mr. Bola Ajao, described the allegations as unfounded.

 

Ajao said that the APC was already preparing an alibi for its impending defeat at the poll.

He said, “This allegation is too pedestrian, it is fake and it is obvious that they are fabrications which they intend to put forward to justify their impending disgrace.

 

“This is another ploy in their sinking ship diplomacy. The Presidency of Nigeria for Jonathan and the governorship of Osun State for (Senator Iyiola) Omisore is not worth the blood of any Nigerian.”