APC Plans To Attack Its Leaders --Fani-Kayode

PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation,
PDPPCO raised alarm Friday on the alleged plot by the All
Progressives Congress (APC) to simulate attacks on some of its own
leaders with a view to accusing the PDP of being responsible for the
attacks.

In a statement by Director, Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential
Campaign Organisation, Chief Femi Fani- Kayode, said, "it has been
brought to our attention that a section of the leadership of the All
Progressive Congress (APC) has now perfected plans to simulate violent
attacks on members of their own party and then point fingers at
supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP for such attacks
in order to portray us as being violent.

"As diabolical as this plan appears to be, it should come as no
surprise to the Nigerian people given the antecedents of the APC. It
is their stock-in-trade and their hallmark to engage in cheap
propaganda and blackmail and to indulge in the most hideous form of
violence. The recent torching of some of the branded buses of our
party by the APC in Jos did not come to us as a surprise.

"Again the attacks on the convoy of our candidate, President Goodluck
Jonathan, whilst he was campaigning in Katsina, Bauchi, Taraba,
Adamawa and Kaduna States were all carried out by members of the APC
and the supporters and disciples of General Muhammadu Buhari.

"As an example of their sheer deceit and chicanery, there is a video
of the burning of our campaign buses all over social media. This video
footage showed a group of hoodlums offering songs of praise to General
Muhammadu Buhari and chanting war songs whilst they indulged in a
gruesome and unrestrained orgy of violence. Yet the APC still
attempted to deceive Nigerians by claiming that the burning of the
buses was carried out by members of the PDP in Plateau State.

"The fact of the matter is that our party was not embroiled in any
violent intra-party fracas in Plateau state. Furthermore our party
leaders and members in Plateau State have demonstrated the highest
level of decorum and civility even in the face of sponsored violence
in the state.
--Vanguard