The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has launched a fresh plan to destabilize the opposition party.
The ADC claimed that the APC has scheduled a public protest for Thursday, 2nd April, in Abuja for a paid crowd to pose as aggrieved party members and demand that the National Chairman of the party, “David Mark Must Go.”
The ADC, in a statement on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, alleged that a serving Minister is behind the planned protest.
He added that the plan of the ruling party is to pressure the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to take illegal actions against the ADC following the defection of former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, to the party.
Abdullahi therefore called on President Bola Tinubu to call his party and Minister to order if they are not acting on his orders.
The full statement reads: “Yesterday, we disclosed a sinister plot by agents of the ruling APC government to pressure INEC into taking illegal action to destabilise our party, following the milestone movement of H.E. Rabiu Kwankwaso to the ADC.
“After meeting a brick wall with INEC, they have now changed tactics, but the objectives remain the same.
“Information reaching us this morning is that a public protest is being planned for tomorrow, Thursday, 2nd April, in Abuja, sponsored by a particularly notorious minister. Their expectation is that a protest will give oxygen to a case that is already suffocating in the courts under the weight of its own illegality.
“The plan is simple: a paid crowd, posturing as aggrieved party members, will take to the streets demanding “David Mark Must Go.”
“This, they hope, will create “public pressure” on the INEC Chairman to magically upgrade and recognise an individual who resigned his position and was subsequently expelled from the ADC, to the position of National Chairman of a party he no longer belongs to.
“The plan by the ruling APC government to hijack the leadership of the ADC, the only viable opposition party left in the country, is real. If anything, it has assumed a new level of desperation in the past few days. They are not just afraid of our momentum. They are afraid of what happens when the Nigerian people start paying attention and begin to believe that change is possible.
“ADC remains focused on our duty to Nigerians, and we shall remain law-abiding. We will, however, resist by all lawful and necessary means.
“If they are not acting on his orders, President Tinubu should rein in his enforcers before it is too late.”