PDP, Opposition Parties Plan To Use Boko Haram Members, Bandits To Disrupt 2019 Election – Lai Mohammed Alleges

PDP, Opposition Parties Plan To Use Boko Haram Members, Bandits To Disrupt 2019 Election – Lai Mohammed Alleges

Minister
for Information and Culture, Lai Moahmmed, says the Federal government
is in possession of credible intelligence report indicating a grand plan
by members of the opposition to use Boko Haram members and armed
bandits to creat widespread violence in several states during the 2019
elections.

Mohammed said this at a press briefing in Abuja today January 21st.  

”As you are aware, Nigeria goes to the polls just 27 days from now.
However, the Federal Government is in possession of credible
intelligence to the effect that widespread violence being orchestrated
by the opposition is threatening the 2019 general elections. You have
definitely seen the massive and warm reception that President Muhammadu
Buhari has been receiving across the country, compared to the thinning
crowds that have been attending the opposition rallies.

 Having realized that their fortunes have dwindled badly ahead of the
polls,the desperate opposition is orchestrating widespread violence
with a view to truncating the elections, thus triggering a
constitutional crisis that could snowball into the establishment of an
interim govt.

Before you accuse the government of crying wolf, let me tell you,
gentlemen, that we hv credible intelligence that armed bandits and
BokoHaram insurgents have been mobilized to engage in massive attacks
and other acts of violence in several states including Adamawa, Bauchi,
Borno, Benue, Kano, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Plateau, Taraba and Zamfara.

The Benue-based armed criminal group, led by Terwase AKWAZA, also
known as Gana, has been commissioned to strike soft targets in Benue,
Nasarawa, and Taraba States. In Kano State, a group of notorious
miscreants have been mobilized by some prominent opposition leaders to
provoke massive chaos before, during and after the elections. There is
also an international dimension to the evil plan. Some armed mercenaries
from Niger Republic have been contracted to attack top government
functionaries, including state governors, across the North-west between
now and the elections. 

The Federal Government is taking every possible measure to counter
these evil plans by unpatriotic anarchists and ensure the success of the
2019 General Elections. The Administration’s commitment to a credible,
free, fair and peaceful elections is unshaken” he said