The All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign Council’s schedule of activities has been adjusted, with dates for South-East rallies for its presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, shifted.
The ruling party was preparing to hold rallies in Imo and Anambra states on Mondays, a day that commercial activities are not allowed to go on in the South-East. However, Tinubu’s camp seems to have changed its mind about playing the dare game.
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No official reason has been given for the shift, but, a source in the campaign council confirmed to The Punch that the party previously failed to consider that “Monday is a dreaded period” for anyone in some areas of the South-East to go out.
The paper also noted that the APC had shifted its campaign activities in the zone beginning on Monday, which could be related to the Indigenous People of Biafra’s mandatory sit-at-home order.
The APC previously announced that Tinubu’s campaign and zonal stakeholders’ meeting would take place in Imo State on Monday, November 21, but that date has now been shifted to Tuesday.
Similarly, according to the revised timetable released by the campaign council on Friday night, the Anambra rally scheduled for Monday, January 30, has been moved to Tuesday.
“If you drive out anyhow in the South-East on a Monday, it is at owner’s risk. The South-East is not a place where you can just veer into and gather people in the name of politics.
“So, we have to make that necessary amendment in dates, not necessarily because of possible confrontation, but to make people willing to troop out for the rallies,” a source who spoke to The Punch said.
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However, Festus Keyamo, the Chief Spokesman of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, has claimed that the date change has nothing to do with the potential threats posed by the Eastern Security Network or IPOB.
“As the ruling party, our plan is to cover the entire country. We should not be seen as giving oxygen to non-state actors. We are not running away from anybody or a group. As I earlier told you, the timetable is just a working document that can be amended at any time.”
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