The Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Sunday, cautioned the opposition political parties must conduct themselves with decorum.
Spokesman of the Council, Festus Keyamo, in a statement also asked the parties to avoid heating up the polity with unflattering comments.
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Keyamo said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) have “threatened fire and brimstone if their own version of some concocted results are not announced” in a bid to be the judge, jury and executioner in the elections.”
According to him, the APC PCC has observed certain subtle threats of violence from the camps of the opposition parties as the results of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly poll started trickling in.
“Our attention has been drawn to some incendiary comments by spokespersons of the opposition parties, notably the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Labour Party regarding the yet-to-be-announced results of the elections that held yesterday. Some of them have threatened fire and brimstone if their own version of some concocted results are not announced in a bid to be the judge, jury and executioner in this elections,” Keyamo stated.
“Similarly, to rile up their supporters against the country, they play up some isolated incidents of violence in our strongholds, whereas we have tons of videos of massive electoral malpractices like violence against non-LP supporters, forcing and guiding women and children to thumb-print ballot papers for LP and massive thumb-printing of ballot papers by both PDP and LP supporters in some parts of the country.
“In addition, in one breath one of the spokespersons of the PDP complained about a certain headline in a newspaper about early results, yet in condemning the newspaper, he also makes unfounded claims about the yet-to-be-released results,” the statement added.
