Nigeria, March 21 -- The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of plotting to disintegrate the country through banditry and electoral violence.

The party, in a statement issued on Sunday by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, hinged its reason on the silence of the APC on the recent attack on the Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, and the bloody disruption of last Saturday's bye-election in Ekiti State.

While Mr Ortom, a PDP governor, narrowly escaped attack allegedly launched by suspected bandits on Saturday, three voters were not as lucky as unidentified gunmen unleashed mayhem during the voting in Ekiti on the same day.

No comment has been made on the two incidents by the APC at the ...