The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has
accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of designing
special card reader and result sheets for the ruling All Progressives Congress
(APC).
The chairman also warned the Chairman of the
commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, that history would be unkind to him if he
fails to conduct free and fair election in 2019.
But in a swift reaction, the Chief Press Secretary
to INEC chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, said there was no iota of truth in what
Secondus said, adding that the commission will not be joining issues with any
political party.
According to him, “There is no iota of truth in the
allegations being made by the PDP. The commission is focusing on preparations
for the 2019 general elections at the moment and will not join issues with any
political party, especially the one that has perfected the art of raising false
alarms.”
Secondus
stated this on Wednesday while hosting election team of the Economic Community of West
Africa States (ECOWAS) led by Mohammad Conteh at the party's national campaign
headquarters in Maitama, Abuja.
The PDP chairman alleged that the electoral
commission is working in conjunction with the ruling APC to rig the elections
in 2019.
He therefore cautioned that manipulation of
election in 2019 would be a recipe for crisis in the country, stressing that
INEC chairman would be held accountable.
The PDP chairman in a statement yesterday by his
Media Adviser, Ike Abonyi, alleged that the commission used the governorship
elections in Ekiti and Osun States as rehearsal to practice their rigging
strategy for 2019.
He stated: "They have finished their rigging
arrangements with preloaded cards and special election result sheets all
doctored to favour the ruling APC.
"The
INEC chairman has no strong will to follow our electoral laws and constitution
as well as the laid down international standards in his processes towards 2019,
and we want to let the world know this before it happens.
"They have finished plots to isolate states of
Kano, Benue, Rivers, Bauchi, Akwa Ibom,
Delta, Imo and Kwara and Lagos for disruption during the general election so that
they can plan well to mobilise the rigging.”
Secondus alleged that the commission's rigging
agenda is being propelled by the security agencies especially with the current
Inspector General of Police (IG) who he said has proved to be the most violent
bias police boss in the country.
He noted that his party was using the INEC template
they saw in Ektiti and Osun States to reiterate their lack of confidence in the
commission as nothing has happened to show that there is going to do anything
different from what they did in those two states.
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