The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP has cautioned the All Progressives Congress, APC-led federal government to “perish every contemplations of imposing a state of emergency in Anambra state ahead of the November 6 governorship election.”
The PDP in a press statement by their national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said that the “reported move to foist an emergency rule in Anambra state is a ploy by the APC-led government to suppress the people, manipulate the process and rig the governorship election for the APC and its candidate.
PDP also urged the federal government to come clean with role in the deteriorating state of insecurity in the state stressing that the government has the capacity to arrest the ugly situation.
“Our party demands that the APC and its administration should come clean on their roles in the sudden rise in insecurity in Anambra state ahead of the election.
“This demand is predicated on apprehensions in the public space that the spate of insecurity in Anambra is contrived to heighten tension in the state so as to derail the democratic process to the advantage of the APC.
“The PDP insists that the Federal Government has the capacity to ensure peace in Anambra before, during and even after the election, if it so desired.We therefore invite the President @MBuhari-led APC Federal Government to be guided accordingly.”
They urged the people of Anambra to remain calm and seek legal means to stop the process.
“Our party also charges the people of Anambra state to remain calm and alert as well as take steps within the ambits of the law to resist plots by the APC to derail the electoral process in its inordinate ambition to seize Anambra through the back door.”
