The All Peoples Party has accused allies of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, of plot to charge its National Chairman, Uche Nnadi, and the spokesperson of the opposition in the House of Representatives, Ikenga Imi Ugochinyere, with bribery of judicial officers, intimidation and felony.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the party said that the move against its chairman and Ugochinyere was in the bid to silence them.
The party said the allies of Wike were working with “some compromised security personnel” to frame its the duo “with baseless fabricated allegations of Judicial corruption, treason, bribery of judicial officers and forgery”.
In the statement issued in Abuja by its National Publicity Secretary, Ugo Apu, the party claimed it had intercepted credible intelligence that the persons had brought some young men together who would claim they were close to the National Chairman and were involved with him in committing acts of treason, bribing of judicial officers and forgery of court documents.
The statement said: “Since the landslide victory of our Party in the Rivers State Local Government election, persons allegedly close to the FCT Minister instituted cases in Court seeking the deregistration of the APP.
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“Having realised the futility of their cases, they have now resorted to the dark art of attempting to frame our National Chairman, and key Opposition voices to silence them and stop them from speaking out against their impunity in PDP, rivers state and FCT land grabbing scandal.”
Apu, therefore, called on Nigerians to be on the lookout for these tales by moonlight type of stories and their AI-enhanced evidence, which cannot amount to upturning the party’s electoral successes at the Rivers State Local Government elections or stop the opposition from insisting that the sacked 27 lawmakers remained sacked.
He also said that President Bola Tinubu must order an audit of the ongoing alleged land grabbing in the FCT to help save Nigeria’s democracy from destabilising.
He added: “Some people are acting like they own Rivers State and FCT.
“They have failed to come to terms with the fact that APP has won majority seats in the election.
“This onslaught will fail, and APP will continue as the fastest-growing political party in Nigeria.”
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