APC petitions PDP guber candidate over alleged plan to disrupt governorship/state assembly polls

Zamfara state chapter of the APC has petitioned the DSS and copied to all security agencies on alleged possible planned attack on innocent electorates who will come out to vote during governorship/state assembly elections in the state with the intent to either truncate the election due to their fear of losing the elections.

The petition which was made available to Journalists in Gusau the state capital by the State Publicity Secretary of the APC, recalls that the PDP thugs on the alleged instructions of its gubernatorial candidate, Dauda Lawal Dare had last year attacked innocent citizens with guns, killed one person and many others hospitalized at the Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau.

The APC urged the security operatives in the state to, for the sake of giving innocent lives most needed protection, carryout an extensive search on Dauda Lawal Dare’s residence located at GRA

Gusau as well as his other facilities in order to bring out suspected arms and ammunitions kept to be used by the PDP thugs during the elections.

“The party, through its lawyers, cautioned that the matter needs urgent response so as to prevent the breakdown of law and order during the polls that may escalate to other parts of the country.”

Polls: Pentecostal Bishops caution clerics against incitement

From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna

Ahead of the Saturday’s Governorship and States Houses of Assembly elections in Nigeria, the Pentecostal Bishops Forum (PBF) had cautioned clerics, both of the Christian and Islamic faiths to be mindful of their sermons, utterances and hate speeches to avoid inciting their followers and others.

Chairman of the forum, Kaduna State Chapter, Bishop Ademola I. Tinuoye who made the call in an interview with newsmen on the forthcoming elections, also called on the good people of Kaduna State to come out en mass on the18th March to vote their leaders without sentiment.

He admonished that competence and inclusiveness is necessary.

“Christian and Muslim leaders must stop issuing statements that could create chaotic tension and over heat the polity, their speeches or sermons must be such that will calm nerves and promote peaceful and religious coexistence.”