The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has stated that it was in good stead in Bauchi, Kano, Sokoto, Benue, Adamawa and Plateau states and as such, will use all legitimate means to ensure that nobody rigged out its candidates in the supplementary elections.
The party made this position in a press release signed by its Spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan.
He said Nigerians must know of the unsavoury developments being orchestrated by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to assist the All Progressives Congress, APC, to manipulate the electoral processes in Bauchi, Sokoto and Adamawa states.
According to the party, in Bauchi, though INEC was yet to complete the collation of results to determine the margin of lead in the governorship election, it was still proceeding to conduct a supplementary election.
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“This anomaly being created by INEC is directly geared to cause confusion and muddle-up the Bauchi electoral process and pave the way for allocation of fictitious votes to the APC.
This informs why INEC hurriedly and shamelessly jettisoned its statutory independence and implemented the unconstitutional ex-parte order to halt the collation of results in Bauchi and Adamawa states, even before the order was enrolled and served on it.
The PDP cautioned INEC to note that it already had the figures of votes delivered at the polling units. “We also have figure of voters with PVCs in the areas where INEC plans to conduct supplementary elections. Therefore any attempt by INEC and the APC to pad the results to favour the APC will be firmly resisted.
“In Adamawa, we have also been informed of how the APC and INEC are conniving to cause confusion and alter the figures of already collated results of the governorship election won by the PDP. The situation has become so pathetic that the Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner REC is yet to officially state the commission’s position on whether the supplementary election will hold or not
The PDP further charged the INEC Chairman to ensure strict adherence to the use of card readers in all the Supplementary elections saying what took place in the last elections that led to all manner of electoral manipulations must not be allowed in the supplementary polls.
