Less than 48 hours after the call for the postponement of next month’s general elections by the National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Sambo Dasuki, drew mixed reactions from Nigerians, a new report has revealed that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, government has perfected five plans to shift the February polls for another three months.
According to the report which was posted on the official Facebook account of Nigeria’s former Minister, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, incumbent President Jonathan was alleged to be planning to shift the elections for three months in the first instance and for another three months in the second instance.
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It was disclosed that move was necessitated due to daily security reports received by the President that he would most likely lose the forthcoming presidential election woefully.
Below is the full text of the report as posted by El-Rufai on Facebook:
Jonathan and the PDP have perfected plans to shift the February polls for another three months. The Monitors gathered from a reliable source that due to daily security reports received by President Jonathan that he will lose the forthcoming election woefully, the only option left is to shift the elections for three months in the first instance and for another three months in the second instance.
The security reports which are not favourable to Jonathan are daily getting worse for the President as the Buhari tsunami rages daily. With what is on ground now, it is clear that Jonathan will lose to Buhari with a wide margin! This is why the PDP hawks came up with series of plans to stop the election and push for an interim government.
The first of the plans is to hide under insurgency and the fact that Nigeria is at war to shift the elections. But INEC did not agree with this position as it told Nigerians about its readiness to conduct the elections. According to INEC, both sensitive and non – sensitive materials are ready. Also about 70% of voters have collected their PVCs.
The second plan is the DSS unwarranted invasion of the APC Data centre with the allegation that APC has hacked into INEC database but later told Nigerians that APC was trying to clone Permanent Voters Cards (PVC cards) without evidence to back up the accusation. The actual plan of the DSS which failed was to accuse APC of h*****g into INEC database and that this had destroyed the database as a result of which elections shall be postponed. This option also failed as INEC did not complain that its database was hacked into by the APC or any other organisation!
The third option is to start aggressive campaign about the “Buhari’s no certificate issue”. The PDP started shouting on the rooftops that Buhari has no certificate but INEC did not agree with them. When the PDP would not stop pestering INEC over the certificate issue, PDP was advised to go to court but up till today, the PDP has not gone to court! Meanwhile, the Military institution which Buhari attended in tthe USA (United States War College) confirmed in writing that the certificate Buhari obtained from them is equivalent to Masters Degree. That put paid to the “Buhari no certificate campaign”. So the third plan also failed.
Fourthly, they moved to the fake health record and false report of Buhari’s ill health. A notorious aide of the Governor of Ekiti State, one
Lere Olayinka circulated a forged health report that Buhari has prostrate cancer and that he has been flown out to the USA for an undisclosed ailment. Buhari himself debunked this report and continued with his campaign in two states that he was scheduled to visit on that day,
The fifth and the latest plot to shift the elections is by using certain TV Houses to invite speakers to their stations to start arguing in favour of election postponement. In this plot, AIT owned by PDP chieftain Dokpesi), NTA, Silverbird and (STV, owned by Ben Bruce, PDP Senatorial Candidate in Bayelsa State) got N1billion each for this purpose. The Monitors got this information two days ago and it was confirmed on AIT Kakaaki this morning when four guests were invited to the station to start arguing in favour of election postponement. The guests were, former Labour Party Chairman, Dan Anyanwu, Tanko Yinusa from Kaduna State, Alhaj. Shehu Musa former Chief of Staff to Bauchi Governor and Mr. Yinka Odumakin. They argued in favour of election postponement as predicted.
This is a frightening scenario that constitutes clear and present danger. This is a serious threat to the 2015 elections. We call on all Nigerians of goodwill, civil society coalitions, pressure groups and the International Community to rise up and ask Jonathan not to destroy Nigeria. Please, pray hard for God’ intervention.
Meanwhile, INEC spokesperson, Kayode Idowu had told SaharaReporters that INEC was not aware of plans to ppostpone next month’s elections.
The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Attahiru Jega, has rebuffed calls for the postponement of the 2015 general election, insisting that the scheduled elections will hold as planned.
Several sources connected to the presidency had also informed that President Jonathan wanted the polls shifted in a bid for him to appoint a new INEC chairman of his liking to oversee the elections.
Professor Attahiru Jega’s tenure expires in July 2015.
With Jega out of the way, Jonathan would appoint another INEC chairman who would further postponement of the election.
INEC’s schedule for conducting the general elections has raised several arguments over the months.
The country’s main opposition party the All Progressives Congress (APC) had earlier accused Jonathan administration of plotting to shift the elections to extend his stay in office, but these claims have been debunked by presidential aides who in turn accuse the opposition of crying foul when there is none.