The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress  (APC), on Monday, condemned what it called syndicated demonstration being sponsored by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) across the country.

It accused the ruling party of plotting to disrupt the forthcoming general election because it has become obvious to it that it would be difficult to manipulate the polls.  

In a statement by its spokesman, Joe Igbokwe, the party described the wave of protests by the out-la wed militia groups – the Movement for the Actualisation of Soverign State opf Biafra (MASSOB) and the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), as efforts to scuttle the electoral process.

The statement reads: “The syndicated protests by MASSOB and OPC are desperate efforts by a dying government to create confusion so as to sabotage the election when it had become obvious to  PDP that it had lost the support of Nigerians in the forthcoming elections and warned that more of such purchased mercenary protests are in the offing as we inch close to the 2015 election.

“It is instructive that the purchased campaigners are destroying campaign posters and bill boards of APC in their mercenary traits and said this tells so much of the mission they are sponsored to do.

“We in the APC say that Nigerians must see in what is happening today the consuming desperation of PDP to pull down the Nigerian house when it has become obvious that they have lost the support of the people.

“No one should be surprised at what is happening today because it reflects the last acts of a dying junta desperate to use every means to remain in power.