‘APC Has Proof Of Interim Govt Plot’

Former Ekiti State governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has declared that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has evidence to back up its claim that President Goodluck Jonathan was allegedly planning to constitute an interim national government.

He said the allegation by the APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu – that his life was under threaten – was a pointer to the desperation of the Jonathan-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government.
Fayemi made this comment at the weekend in Aramoko Ekiti, headquarters of the Ekiti West local government area of the state, during the 40-day Fidau for the late Pa Jejelola and Mrs Raliat Akingbolu.
Tinubu, it would be recalled, had last week claimed that he had been invited by President Jonathan to be part of a proposed interim government in case the rescheduled polls were not held.

He also raised the alarm that his life was being threatened by the federal government over his support for the presidential bid of Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), his party’s flag bearer.
Fayemi said the president cannot deny that he consulted the APC leader to be part of the proposed interim government, noting that the allegation was made in good faith and not meant to malign the president.
“President Jonathan is becoming desperate by the day and he will stop at nothing to return to government. You know what they did in Ekiti. So, there is nothing Tinubu said that is not verifiable.
“I have evidence that he was invited to be part of interim government as a way of dividing us, as (he is) a prominent member of our party. There is absolutely nothing they cannot do to distract us because they could see that the presidency is gradually slipping off their hands,” he said.
According to him, it is good that the sinister move to subvert the will of the people is being made public, adding that the quest of Nigerians to exercise their democratic rights cannot be wished away.
“What Nigerians are looking for now is for the elections to be held on March 28 as rescheduled by INEC, and for the victor who will be overwhelmingly elected by the popular votes to be announced.
“We, as party leaders and members of opposition are ready to congratulate the winner, but if they go ahead and subvert the will of the people, they will surely go to jail,” he warned.
Fayemi gave the assurance that Buhari would keep his promise of not probing the corrupt practices in past regimes, including those perpetrated in President Jonathan’s administration.
“Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari said he won’t look into the past. He said he will draw the line on the very day he takes over, and I don’t know why President Jonathan, who has the paraphernalia of office, is afraid of election”, he said.

Fayemi attacks Fayose
Lambasting the governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, for allegedly lying against Buhari over his health status, Fayemi urged the governor to stop ridiculing and debasing the virtue of respect the state is known for.
“We have heard somebody, whose own definition of politics is about lying, saying Gen Buhari was taken to a hospital in London. Buhari never went to hospital throughout the 10 days he was in London because I was with him throughout.
“Fayose even used his mother as an example of how people who are old behave just because he wanted to drive home a point that Gen. Buhari was sick. This is like disgracing his own mother in public; this is against the value Ekiti is known for.”

APC launches radio station
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has launched a new international radio station.
This follows the takeover and dominance of the nation’s broadcasting airwaves by elements of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who are using same to attack the APC leadership.
LEADERSHIP learnt that the new broadcast outfit, which broadcasts from undisclosed locations, has started broadcasting to Hausa speaking people of Northern Nigeria with 500kw transmitters on test transmission from 7:00am-7:30am on 11720khz on the 25meterband shortwave.
The sign-call of the radio is Radio APC, Radio Chanji.
The broadcast which was received and monitored in Kano, Ibadan, Port Harcourt, Maiduguri, Adamawa, Birnin-Kebbi and Niamey, among others, started transmission over the weekend.
The programmes which were largely APC musicals in Hausa language are in support of the party’s presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, the party’s Kaduna State governorship candidate, Malam Nasir el-Rufai; Kano State governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Sokoto State governor Aliyu Wammako and other party chieftains.
The unnamed female announcer said a 24-hour transmission would soon commence to cover the pre-and post-election activities of the party, including the phone-in programmes, on-the-spot assessments, and interviews with various strata of the party’s faithful.

My government created APC
- Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday claimed that the creation of the mega opposition party, the APC, was the result of his administration’s deliberate policy to entrench democracy in the country.
The president, who spoke at a roundtable aired live on national television and radio stations, said his administration allowed the opposition parties to merge by giving them the enabling environment.
Jonathan prided his administration as one which accommodates insults and abuses from the people without having to reprimand anyone, saying that in its bid to entrench democratic values, his government had ensured the freedom of speech.
Speaking through the secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, he said the ruling PDP was not afraid of the APC, but was enjoying its activities because the opposition party remains its creation.
He observed that it was his deliberate policy of promoting freedom of association that made it possible for those in the opposition to merge and challenge the ruling party.
“President Jonathan believes (that) strong opposition is good for our democracy. Opposition should be very grateful to Mr President. Say whatever you want to say, it doesn’t matter – we enjoy it”, Anyim stated.
He added that the administration has promoted the right to vote and be voted for and strengthened the sanctity and integrity of democracy by ensuring that votes count.
Jonathan pointed out that despite all negative comments against him and his government, there had not been any political prisoner in the country.
He added that his administration had been able to stabilise the National Assembly by not interfering with their operations.
This, he explained, is his own way of decentralizing power by strengthening institutions rather than making himself or anybody serving under his government a dictator.