PDP Accuses APC, Presidency Of Fresh Plot To Rig In Kano, Lagos, 14 Other States

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the ruling
All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Nigerian Presidency of
arm-twisting security agencies and plotting to replace Electoral
Officers (EOs) in “some critical states” with APC agents to allegedly
rig this Saturday’s presidential election.

The Director of Media
and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Kola
Ologbondiyan, told newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja, that the INEC
Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu had allegedly succumbed to pressure to
replace Electoral Officers in PDP strongholds in order to rig the
election in favour of President Muhammadu Buhari.

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The
states, according to Ologbondiyan, are Kano, Kaduna, Rivers, Bauchi,
Akwa-Ibom, Zamfara, Benue, Sokoto, Lagos, Plateau, Taraba, Borno,
Adamawa, Kogi, Delta and Ebonyi.

“At a meeting held in Buhari
Presidency/APC situation room in the Presidential Villa last night
(Tuesday) where Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, the
Managing Director of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman,
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mustapha Boss, among
others, were in attendance, Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) were
directed to issue out result sheets to APC agents to falsify and
declare results in favour of the APC.

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“Also,
our party has full details of how the Department of State Services
(DSS) has been interfering with operations of critical departments of
INEC, including the ICT department, to do APC bidding.

“The PDP
also has details of the meeting last night (Tuesday) by President
Buhari, some APC northern governor and Service Chiefs last night,
whereupon pressure was mounted on the Service Chiefs in connection with
the APC rigging plans.

“However, the PDP, in clear terms, assures
INEC, compromised security agents and President Buhari that their evil
plans will definitely come to naught.

“Nigerians are now, more
than ever before, determined in rallying with our party, to confront,
resist and stop President Buhari and the APC on their trail to rig the
February 23 election.

“These APC EOs have been briefed to ensure
the diversion of sensitive electoral materials from designated polling
centres, delay the accreditation process, so as to frustrate voters’
enthusiasm, compromise the collation process to allocate and announce
fictitious results for President Buhari and muddle up the process to
pave way for result cancellation where it becomes impossible to rig for
President Buhari.

“It is now clearer that the Election Day
killing order issued by President Buhari is designed to clamp-down and
even kill patriotic Nigerians who will want to confront and stop the APC
from executing their rigging plots on the day of election,” the PDP
said.

Source:- Dailytrustng