“THE plan is simple: a paid crowd, posturing as aggrieved party members, will take to the streets demanding “David Mark Must Go,” the latest allegations of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) desperation to destabilize the party.

The national publicity Secretary of the ADC, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi who made the allegations on his X handle on Wednesday said the option of the paid protest was activated after an unsuccessful move to pressure the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) into dismantling the David Mark led leadership of the party .

The statement reads: “Yesterday, we disclosed a sinister plot by agents of the ruling APC government to pressure INEC into taking illegal action to destabilise our party, following the milestone movement of H.E. Rabiu Kwankwaso to the ADC.

“After meeting a brick wall with INEC, they have now changed tactics, but the objectives remain the same. Information reaching us this morning is that a public protest is being planned for tomorrow, Thursday, 2nd April, in Abuja, sponsored by a particularly notorious minister. Their expectation is that a protest will give oxygen to a case already suffocating in the courts under the weight of its own illegality.

“The plan is simple: a paid crowd, posturing as aggrieved party members, will take to the streets demanding “David Mark Must Go.” This, they hope, will create “public pressure” on the INEC Chairman to magically upgrade and recognize an individual who resigned his position and was subsequently expelled from the ADC, to the position of National Chairman of a party he no longer belongs to.”

ADC continued, “the plan by the ruling APC government is to hijack the leadership of the ADC, the only viable opposition party left in the country, is real. If anything, it has assumed a new level of desperation in the past few days. They are not just afraid of our momentum.”

The party said the APC Is afraid of what happens when the Nigerian people start paying attention and begin to believe that change is possible.

“ADC remains focused on our duty to Nigerians, and we shall remain law-abiding. We will, however, resist by all lawful and necessary means. If they are not acting on his orders, President Tinubu should rein in his enforcers before it is too late.” (The Guardian)