A group, Peace and Stability Initiative (PSI), Thursday alleged that it has uncovered plots by some foreign agents in connivance with their local collaborators to instigate a large-scale political uprising ahead of the May 29 swearing-in of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The Coordinator of the group, Ali M Ali, in a statement issued in Abuja, claimed that intelligence reports indicate a new plot by local opposition elements goaded by a foreign union to release a harebrained, skewed, and stage-managed final report on the 2023 General elections in Nigeria, with emphasis on the presidential election.
He said the heavily slanted report, based on the views of biased observers, will be released any moment from now, adding that it shares the same denunciatory tone as the one released in March.
“Since the result of the Presidential election was formally announced on March 1, 2023, there have been many insidious plots by some foreign agent provocateurs working in cahoots with their local collaborators masquerading as civil society groups and others to instigate large-scale political uprising in Nigeria because they failed woefully in their predetermined agenda to influence the electoral outcome.
“These agents of destabilization have not relented in their evil plots even though we are just a few days away from the May 29, 2023 inauguration of a new central government that will be led by the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“Intelligence reports indicate a new plot by local opposition elements goaded by a foreign union to release a harebrained, skewed, and stage-managed final report on the 2023 General elections in Nigeria, with emphasis on the presidential election. The heavily slanted report, based on the views of biased observers, will be released any moment from now. It shares the same denunciatory tone as the one released in March.
“The release is deliberately timed to achieve two sinister objectives. One is to dampen the celebratory mood in our country ahead of the inauguration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and delegitimize the incoming All Progressives Congress government that will be led by him.
“Second is to intimidate and hope to influence the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court that has just commenced the process of adjudicating on the petitions before it. We are putting this busybody, a meddlesome international development agency that has constituted itself into an interloper in our country’s internal affairs on notice that Nigeria is a sovereign state. It is no longer a vassal state, tied to the apron strings of neo-colonialists, that can be harassed by special foreign interests seeking to cause internal strife.
“We also view their planned action as contemptuous of our country’s judicial system as all litigations about the general elections are now before our courts for adjudication. We reiterate and maintain our earlier positions that the 2023 general elections in Nigeria were the most peaceful, transparent, free, and fair election in Nigeria since 1999 as attested to by all non-partisan foreign and local observers”, he said.
