The Coalition of United Political Parties has raised alarm over plots by the Presidency and its APC cohorts to deploy special security forces led by the army and police to rig the elections.
Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, National Spokesperson of CUPP said “the ruthless government thought they have perfected and made things easy for themselves by using their influence on the IGP to post Pro-APC police commissioners to their places of choice.
“However, with the postponement of the 2019 general elections and the failure of APC to sack the INEC Chairman for standing by the people and not succumbing to the Presidency’s pressure to conduct staggered Presidential elections, the outgoing APC government have now planned to deploy special security forces led by the army and police to help them make their rigging of election much easier.
“The President earlier in the week shamelessly bragged about how gave he gave authorization to his security to kill anyone who is caught ballot snatching, whereas it’s a ploy by him and his immoral security agents to kill innocent Rivers people who will resist their rigging plan under the guise of tagging them ballot snatchers.
“We have credible intelligence that the Army leadership acting on Buhari’s instruction were told to aid APC thugs to write fake results and smuggle into collation centre.
“The Opposition also has it in good authority that the army is planning to abduct Opposition Leaders in Rivers on friday night, seal off all local government collation to allow only APC agents switch result and thereby reducing opposition’s votes.
“We wish to let the army know that if they plan to compromise Rivers election and write fake result, it will be deemed as an invitation to Anarchy, and the Opposition will not for any reason accept any election rigging nor tolerate an intimidation of any sort from them.
“We urge our citizens not to fear, this is the final battle, do not be discouraged, this government has shown you what they are made of, it’s time for you to show them that the voices of the people matter by voting them out on Saturday and get Nigeria working again.
“We call on President Buhari to stop his pretentious lifestyle and call off his thugs, retract his statements and desist from further trying to incite violence for the good of the nation.
“We challenge him to engage the opposition consensus candidate, Atiku Abubakar in a free and fair contest and simply concede to defeat when he loses”
