Advocates of election shift unrelenting despite Council of State's decision - APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) says that in spite of the  decision by the National Council of State that the 2015 general elections should  go on as scheduled,”proponents of election shift have not given up on their desperation to scuttle the elections.”
But the party vows that “the desperadoes will always fail in their evil machinations, because no power is strong enough to defeat a determined people”The APC,in a statement yesterday by its  National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, described as  provocative  call “by the bogus Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly for the postponement of the elections and the arrest of INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega.”
The party said this   is one of the new antics of the election postponement campaigners.
''It is shameful that those who should be working hard to promote peaceful elections as scheduled are the same ones doing everything possible to trigger violence. Those who should ordinarily be seen as elder statesmen have degenerated to dangerous partisans and shameless promoters of a narrow, parochial interest, at the expense of the national interest,” the party declared.
''Who does not know that wherever President Goodluck Jonathan's interest lies, therein you will find Chief Edwin Clark, whether or not it is in the national interest? Who does not know that the anarchic call by Chief Clark and his cohorts are being made at the behest of a frenzied presidency?''
It also referred to  a  statement by PDP Spokesman Olisa Metuh as “ another indication that those working hard to sink the elections have not given up.”
''People like Metuh speak just because they could, not because what they say adds any value to purpose democratic governance. Nigerians are undoubtedly confounded that the spokesman of a ruling party will be fanning the embers of ethnic discord, at such a sensitive time like this. There must be a limit to desperation,'' APC said, urging Nigerians to repudiate those who will stop at nothing to bring the nation crashing down instead of losing power through the ballot box.”
The party also slammed the Federal Government for striving to scare voters away from the polling booths during the election, which is the implication of the so-called intelligence announced by the DG of the National Orientation Agency and Coordination of the National Information Centre, Mr Mike Omeri.
''Saying they got intelligence report that female suicide bombers are planning to attack polling booths during February  elections is nothing but scaremongering and wishful thinking. In spite of them, the elections will proceed without violence because Nigerians are ready, willing and able to ensure that.
''Omeri, who is serving on the campaign committee of President Jonathan even as he is holding a sensitive national portfolio, should keep his intelligence to himself. No one but his masters will swallow his scaremongering, which is aimed at depopulating polling units during the elections.''
The APC asked  the security agencies to ensure enhanced protection for all the 11 presidential candidates contesting next week's election, “lest anyone exploits the section of the Constitution allowing election shift if anything untoward should happen to any of the candidates.”