The All Progressives Congress (APC) has been charged by the Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organization with creating a uniformed unit known as the "Jagaban Army." Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, has been called to be detained and questioned for treason.
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The Jagaban Army, in Atiku's opinion, is a flagrant insult to the Nigerian Armed Forces and other security agencies. Its obvious goal is to sabotage the general elections in 2023 and raid polling places to steal votes for Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the APC's presidential candidate.
“It is reprehensible that Tinubu can create a rogue force just for the purpose of undermining the electoral and security arrangements of our nation,” Atiku said through the spokesperson of the Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organization, Kola Ologbondiyan.
“Our Campaign holds that this nefarious act of the APC Tinubu/Shettima Campaign lends credence to the position of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and well-meaning Nigerians that Tinubu, as well as his rank and file, has set out to make our nation ungovernable and after that disrupt the 2023 Presidential election scheduled for February 25, 2023, using his army of ‘Jagabandits’.
“The notion of Jagaban Army is a ploy to bring hoodlums, thugs and gangsters together under cover of the APC and turn them into an official militia that will be used to unleash mayhem on the day of the election.
“This reckless anti-democratic plot by the ‘Jagabandits’ must also be condemned by all lovers of democracy in Nigeria and worldwide.
“We call on the security agencies to save the lives of Nigerians and protect our electoral process by immediately going after this dangerous formation, arresting those behind this design and saving our nation from electoral violence.
“Our campaign counsels Tinubu to note that his Presidential ambition is not a do-or-die affair and that he should not set the nation ablaze just because Nigerians have rejected him and his party, the APC, for their mass failures.
“Nigerians have settled for the PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who continues to exhibit maturity, experience and capacity to deliver, and not even the ‘Jagabandits’ of the APC can cow them to submission,” he said.
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