There will be no more blood shed if Jonathan is not re- elected - APC

The All ProgressivesCongress (APC) has reactedto a statementcredited to Chief Edwin Clark where healleged that if the opposition partyhas its way, it can poison or kill President Goodluck Jonathan just to takeover power. APC described the commentas absurd, incendiary and unbecoming of an elder statesmanin Clark’s stature.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in a statementissued in Lagos on Monday, notedthat Chief Clark’s comment, widely circulated in the media, was thelatest in a string ofstatementsby President Jonathan’s supporters that are overheating the polity ahead of the 2015 general electionsand are eventhreatening the peace and unity ofthe country.
The statementreads; “We have waited for several days to give Chief Clark the opportunity todeny making such a fallacious statement, but hehas not done so, which meanshe was not misquoted and that he indeedmeantwhat hesaid.
“It is time for the President himselfto call his supportersto order for the sakeof the peace and unity of our dear nation. They have been threateningfire and brimstoneif thePresident is not re-elected in 2015, as if elections are won by threats. One has evengone as far as saying there will blood on the streetsif the President is not re-elected,” it said.
According to the party, when hemadesuch dangerous allegation, Chief Clark probably mistookthe partyfor the PDP, which it said has been describedas the nestofkillers.
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“Our party has never and will never contemplatekilling or poisoning President Jonathan just to take power, as Chief Clark carelesslysaid. We are neither a violent nor an anarchic party. We do not seekpower by any meansotherthanthrough theballot box. Thereforewe reject, totally, the statementby Chief Clark.
“We remind Chief Clark that sincePresident Jonathan was voted into office by Nigerians, theyalso reservethe right to vote him out of office. This is theway it is done in every true democracy, and heavens will not fall if President Jonathan is not re-elected in 2015. His supportersshould put theiremotions in checkand stop making commentsthat are downright treasonable,”the party said.