The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) on Sunday accused the Federal Government and the All Progressives
Congress, APC, of sabotaging the Independent National Electoral Commission,
INEC, operations in last Saturday’s scheduled elections using Amina Zakari.
PDP claimed that INEC’s top
official, Amina Zakari alongside other commissioners, were used in sabotaging
the electoral umpire’s operations.
A statement by PDP’s
spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari opted
for the option because he wanted a staggering election where he can use
security operatives to subvert the will of the people.
The statement reads: “Nigerians
will recall that the PDP had vehemently protested the continued retention of
President Muhammadu Buhari’s relation, Mrs. Amina
Zakari, in INEC. We have been
reliably informed that the same Amina Zakari and another high-ranking INEC
commissioner played a pivotal role in assisting the APC and Buhari Presidency
in sabotaging the operations of INEC and scuttling the February
16 elections.
“The reason for this is that
President Buhari is determined to have a staggered election where he can use
security agencies to subvert the will of the people at the polls.
“These APC elements in INEC
engineered actions that affected the distribution and delivery of INEC
sensitive materials to designated locations, thereby frustrating the electoral
process.
“We also have details of how a
hired a team of data hackers corrupted the voters register, with a view to
cause mass confusion and voters suppression on the election day.
“Nigerians would have been
shocked that many registered voters in possession of their Permanent Voter’s
Cards (PVCs) would have arrived their polling centers on election day, only to
discover to their amazement that their names have disappeared from the register
in their
units.
“Intelligence available to us
further details how agents of the Buhari Presidency infiltrated the
distribution system and ensured that sensitive election materials do not arrive
at the designated locations, with the views to stall elections in several states
and pave way for a
staggered election.
“This is in addition to
deliberate swapping of sensitive election materials between different states
and local governments so as to muddle up the process and stall election in
affected areas. In some of states like Edo, sensitive election materials did
not arrive at their
designated points on APC
interruption.”
PDP urged Nigerians to continue
to be alert in resisting the APC and the Buhari Presidency in their plot to
“sabotage our elections.”
“Our promise to Nigerians is that
we will continue to stand with the people in exposing APC’s rigging plots and
stopping them from creating more havoc and destruction of our democratic
process.
“We therefore call on President
Buhari to save himself from further disgrace, as the signpost of enemy of
democracy, by ensuring that his cabal and their ilk in APC cease forthwith from
tampering with our electoral process,” the statement added.
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