Alleged Plot to Impose Emergency Rule in Rivers: PDP Threatens APC

Alleged Plot to Impose Emergency Rule in Rivers: PDP Threatens APC

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of planning to perpetrate violence during next Saturday's rerun election in Rivers State in order to justify imposition of emergence rule, warning that dire consequences will follow any attempt by the APC to push on with its plot to impose a state of emergency in the state.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, today in a statement disclosed that it was privy to a grand design by the APC to orchestrate violence in the state with a view to truncating the elections, having realised that the PDP and its candidates are more popular and ready to win overwhelmingly in all the reruns.

The party said it had also rallied all its formation in the state to stiffly resist by all means necessary in a democracy, any move by the APC to scuttle the Saturday's national and state assembly rerun elections in the state.

“We are aware that the orchestration of violence is designed to serve as stimulus for the planned imposition of a state of emergency to enable the APC forcefully take over the state which it failed to get through the ballot box. We also know that the design to unleash violence is behind the recent infamous call by APC spokesman in Ondo State, Omo'ba Abayomi Adesanya, for emergency rule in Rivers State.

“What else, apart from the execution of this plot explains the complaints from our candidates and members in state of constant threats by partisan security operatives as well as the recent gale of arrests, attacks and killing of PDP supporters in the state?

“But let it be known that Rivers State is a stronghold of the PDP and that such profane quest would be squarely and comprehensively greeted with intense resistance and very dire consequences," stated.