APC alleges fresh plot to frame its leaders

The All Progressives Congress has said it has uncovered another plot being hatched against the leadership of the party by sympathisers of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.

According to the APC, the fresh plot was to import a huge amount of money in US dollars through some people who would then claim that they were hired as cash couriers by the APC leaders.

This allegation was contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by the APC National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

The party said the implicating dollars would be ferried into the country through the Seme or Idi-Iroko, or any other border posts, “anytime from now.”

However, the PDP dismissed the allegations as baseless.

The Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Alhaji Abdullahi Jalo, said, “The APC has taken propaganda to a ridiculous level. We will not dignify them with a response because this allegation lacks substance.”

Lai Mohammed’s statement read in part: “Their plan is that once the couriers – who have been coached on their assignment – are arrested by the Nigerian security agents, they will point accusing fingers at some top APC leaders who supposedly commissioned them to bring in the money to be used for the forthcoming elections.

“The plotters of the evil plan will then order the arrest of the leaders, with a view to damaging their credibility and destabilising them ahead of the elections.”

According to the APC, as many evil plots as were being hatched by desperadoes that were bent on setting the country ablaze just to realise their ambition would be exposed because Nigerians themselves, within and outside the government, had decided to be extra- vigilant.

It added, “Let’s be clear: Our leaders, who have been the targets of unprecedented mudslinging as well as physical and psychological threats will not be intimidated into abandoning their epic struggle to save our country from a rapacious administration.

“Therefore, let those who have been unrelenting in threatening them and also painting them black, using every means imaginable, desist, because their game is up. The people of Nigeria have repudiated their primitive tactics.”