A pro-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) group, the Goodluck Lagos Grassroot Project (GLGP) has said they would not be perturbed by the campaign of propaganda being propagated by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari.
While making the position known the Punch, the Chairman of the group, Alhaji Mufutau Babalola further divulged that the group was not confident in the abilities of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Attahiru Jega, although he believes the postponement of the election was in the country’s interest.
He said: “APC and its presidential candidate cannot bamboozle us with mindless propaganda; we know the party very well and if anybody thinks we are apprehensive of Buhari, it is because we know what he can do to the country. We know that he will draw the country backward.
“Buhari ruled Nigeria for about 20 months and we knew what he did. He passed retroactive laws to kill people. We also knew the kind of corruption that was committed under him as the head of state. When he was PTF chairman, he out-sourced a contract to African Project Consortium. The owner of the company was Buhari’s in-law and he got a contract of about N181bn.
“After he left PTF, it was discovered that N25bn was misappropriated and the day a committee was to begin investigating the misappropriated funds, the owner of the company died.”
Babalola further spoke on the alleged irregularities in the distribution of the Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) in certain part of the state said to have been perpetrated by the APC.
His words: “In areas where there are concentration of non-indigenes in Lagos State, INEC sold the PVCs of the people of the areas to the APC and the party chieftains destroyed them when they realised that the non-indigenes are tired of their party.
“The APC knows that the non-indigenes are a major factor in deciding election victory in Lagos State and most of them are PDP supporters. So, the APC leaders collected the non-indigenes’ PVCs by proxy and destroyed them, that is why Lagos State has 38 per cent PVCs collection rate. Jega should be made to explain why such practice is allowed.”
