The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) says it has unearthed plans by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its Presidential Candidate Atiku Abubakar to rig next month’s Presidential election.
A part of the
plan “to subvert the will of the people”, according to the group, is
PDP’s recent recruitment of a former INEC Chairman known to have
presided over the worse election in Nigeria’s recent political history.
BMO
said in a statement signed by its Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary
Cassidy Madueke, that the rigging plot also involves spending huge sums
of money on police personnel and election officials in many parts of the
country.
“With their campaign daily losing steam, PDP has also
resorted to accusing everyone directly or remotely connected to
President Muhammadu Buhari of corruption; after realising that Nigerians
are not buying any of their Dubai Strategy of lies”.
“Their
leaders had been working on this plan for a while and had consciously
been raising all sorts of allegations and attacking national
institutions involved in the electoral process in order to divert
attention from their devious agenda.
“Part of the plot is to
discredit INEC’s new election guidelines which included simultaneous
accreditation and voting, and which also barred collation officers from
making or receiving calls on election day.
“This same style was
successfully test run in all bye-elections in recent months including
those won by PDP candidates, but the party did not see anything wrong
with it until the Commission insisted that it would be used during the
next elections”.
BMO noted that PDP is also working on
infiltrating INEC by embedding its supporters among ad-hoc electoral
officials as part of its rigging plan.
It consequently advised the Commission to be cautious in its recruitment plan for the general election.
“We
want to place Nigerians on notice that they should be at alert and not
allow PDP elements at all levels to subvert the will of the electorate.
“There
is also a need for the election management body to properly scrutinise
ad-hoc staff to be recruited for Election Day duty as well as pay more
than a passing attention to its officials in the run up to the February
16 election.
“This is because PDP, a party that is known for
electoral manipulation, and which has a lot of dirty schemes in its
kitty to rig the process in favour of its Presidential candidate, needs
to be put under close surveillance”, BMO concluded.
Source:- Politicsngr
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