The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has alerted Nigerians of a clandestine security meeting by the Buhari Presidency with certain top officials of INEC and security agencies, where they hatched an obnoxious plot to hijack the March 23 governorship Supplementary elections.
The party however stated that it was sure of coasting to inevitable victory in the supplementary elections in spite of the plots by the APC because the party was already leading in all the affected states and nothing would alter that reality.
The PDP Spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, gave this indication in a press statement he signed and made available to the Next Edition.
The party cautioned the APC and agents of the Buhari Presidency that Nigerians would never be intimidated but wiould confront and crush any oppressive force that attempts to defy and subvert their will at the Supplementary polls.
The PDP said it has full information on every move by the APC to manipulate the electoral process as not all Nigerians in their government subscribe to their cruelty, resort to violence as well as suppression of votes.
The party also said it was aware of how a top Army officer, at the meeting, directed the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, not to ever declare River State Governor Nyesom Wike and Bauchi’s, Sen. Bala Mohammed, as winners of the Rivers and Bauchi Governorship elections, even when it was clear to all that they won the elections.
The PDP is also privy to how a Director of one of our security agencies, who was at the meeting, undertook to use his agency to deliver Kano state to the APC.
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Consequent upon this ignoble plot, the security meeting has directed the deployment of 30 DSS personnel and 300 mobile policemen to each of the states where supplementary elections have been scheduled with a standing instruction to take over these respective states and make effort to ambush the process, seeing that the PDP is bound to win.
The PDP said no amount of scheming by the Buhari Presidency and the APC to cost the PDP of its unassailable victory with the people.
It is also highly provocative that the INEC Chairman, Prof. Yakubu, is now taking orders from the military to cancel elections and alter results for the APC, instead of asserting the independence and impartiality of INEC under our laws.
Such annexation of the Prof. Yakubu-led INEC by the Buhari Presidency is the only reason the governorship elections in Bauchi, Plateau, Kano, Sokoto, Adamawa, Benue and Rivers states, which were won by the PDP were declared inconclusive.
The PDP cautioned INEC to note that the people already knew the number of voters with Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs, in these states and will never accept any padding of the voter register to favour the APC.
The PDP therefore charged all its members, teeming supporters and all lovers of democracy in these states to remain steadfast in resisting the APC and march out en-mass to their polling units this Saturday to consolidate their victory against oppressive forces in the land.
