2019 Election; Opposition mobilizing Bokoharam to cause crisis - FG

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The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja alleged that the opposition had resorted to mobilising bandits and members of the Boko Haram to cause crisis in order to stop elections in the country.

It further alleged that the masterminds of the plot were also planning to attack some state governors.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the allegations at a press briefing.

He said the plan of those behind the plot was to derail the conduct of the general elections and thereby foist an interim government on the nation.

Though he refused to mention those behind the alleged plot, Mohammed said the masterminds had realised that “their fortunes have dwindled badly ahead of the polls,” adding that the “desperate opposition is orchestrating widespread violence with a view to truncating the elections, thus triggering a constitutional crisis that could snowball into the establishment of an interim government.”

He said the government was already in possession of what he called credible intelligence to the effect that the alleged widespread violence was being plotted by the opposition.

Among the states which the minister alleged had been marked for attack included Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kaduna and Zamfara.

He said, “As you are aware, Nigeria goes to the polls just 27 days from now. However, the Federal Government is in possession of credible intelligence to the effect that widespread violence being orchestrated by the opposition is threatening the 2019 general elections.

“Before you accuse the government of crying wolf, let me tell you, gentlemen, that we have credible intelligence that bandits and Boko Haram insurgents have been mobilised to engage in massive attacks and other acts of violence in several states across the country, including Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Benue, Kano, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Plateau, Taraba and Zamfara.”

The minister further alleged that a criminal group in Benue State, whose leader had been declared wanted, had been contracted to cause mayhem in some states. Those states, he said, were Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba.

In the case of Kano, Mohammed said a group of those he described as notorious miscreants, had been mobilised by some opposition leaders whose identity he refused to disclose, to provoke massive chaos before, during and after the elections.


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