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The Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and that of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have urged the Department of State Services (DSS) to get tough with those allegedly plotting to install an interim national government.
The councils, in separate interviews on Wednesday in Abuja, said the push for the interim government was unconstitutional, adding that the plotters should be arrested.
They spoke in response to a statement issued by the DSS that some people were plotting to set aside the constitution and install an interim national government.
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The secret police had earlier on Wednesday raised the alarm over a plot by some Nigerians to thwart the May 29 inauguration of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
The DSS, in a statement in Abuja by its Public Relations Officer (PRO), Dr Peter Afunanya, alleged that those behind the plot planned to undermine civil rule and foist an interim government on the country.
The Independent National Electoral Commission had on March 1 declared Tinubu the winner of the February 25 presidential election.
The APC presidential candidate polled 8,794,726 votes to defeat the PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who got 6,984,520 votes and the Labour Party’s Peter Obi that had 6,101,533 votes.
