PDP Cries Out, Says INEC Denying Atiku Access To Electoral Materials

By Saawua Terzungwe

The Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, has claimed that the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC), has refused to obey the March 6, 2019 ruling of the
Appeal Court, directing it to allow the party’s presidential candidate
for the February 23 poll, Atiku Abubakar, to inspect the documents and
materials used during the election.

Atiku and his party were in
court, challenging INEC’s declaration that candidate of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), President Muhammadu Buhari won the
election.

The PDP, in a statement Saturday night by its National
Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, said INEC had a deliberate
and wicked agenda to frustrate Atiku’s bid to reclaim his “stolen”
mandate.

The party however, appealed to INEC and APC to obey the
court order by allowing Atiku to inspect the electoral materials and
documents used in the elections.

“It is imperative to inform
Nigerians that upon obtaining the lawful order of the Court, directing
INEC to forthwith, avail Atiku Abubakar and the PDP copies of all the
documents and other materials used for the Presidential election, our
legal team wrote to the INEC Chairman on the 11th and 12th of March 2019
respectively, causing the Order to be served on INEC and requesting
access to the said documents and materials.

“Despite being served
with the Order and several follow-ups, the leadership of INEC has
refused to grant the PDP and Atiku Abubakar access to the materials and
documents, notwithstanding the urgency of the matter.

“This
action by the leadership of INEC has further exposed that it has been
heavily compromised by the Buhari Presidency to rig the February 23,
2019 Presidential election and to frustrate the quest by Nigerians to
reclaim the mandate from President Muhammadu Buhari and save the nation
from the crisis of an illegitimate government.

“The leadership of
INEC and the APC are seeking to frustrate our court option, seeing that
the documents and materials will expressly show that Atiku Abubakar
clearly won the election by the votes directly delivered at the polling
units across the country as well as expose how the commission and the
Buhari Presidency manipulated the results for President Buhari.

“The
PDP cautions the INEC to note that Nigerians are now aware of its
manipulative tendencies and that any further delay in granting access to
the materials might attract public odium.

“INEC should
therefore, end its unpatriotic partisan shenanigans with the APC and
immediately obey the Court of Appeal and grant the PDP and Atiku
Abubakar access to the documents and materials and free itself from
unholy entanglement with the APC against Nigerians,” the PDP said.

Source:- Dailytrustng