2023: Buhari Presidency, APC Plotting To Alter Electoral Act – PDP Says

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday accused the Buhari Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) of a clandestine plot to alter the newly passed Electoral Act 2022 to introduce clauses that will compromise the 2023 general elections.

The Party said that the APC, having realized that it is running out of time and cannot meet up with the already released electoral timetable is now seeking to frustrate and derail the on-going electoral process.

The PDP said it has it on good authority that the Buhari Presidency has perfected plots to use the APC leadership in the National Assembly to orchestrate an amendment to the Electoral Act to create opening for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to alter its already released 2023 Election Timetable and Schedule of Activities to accommodate the APC.

These were contained in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Hon. Debo Ologunagba in which he also said that the Party has information about how the APC has been mounting pressure on INEC to push forward the already scheduled dates for the 2023 general elections.

Ologunagba said that the PDP vehemently rejects the plot by the APC which amounts to shifting the goal post in the middle of the game and therefore cautioned INEC to resist such heinous design against the nation’s democracy.

According to the PDP; “The election timetable has already been released, political parties have commenced processes, Nigerians have since set their minds on the election dates to vote out the APC and there is no going back on that resolve”.

It therefore cautioned the Buhari Presidency and the APC leadership in the National Assembly to note that any attempt to alter the timetable is an invitation to serious political crisis in the country as Nigerians will firmly resist them.

While directing all PDP members in the National Assembly to be vigilant and firmly resist this plot, the PDP called on all lovers of democracy; the Civil Society, the media, Organized Labour and the International Community to stand against the attempt by the APC to derail the democratic process.

The PDP said it would not hesitate to call out millions of its members, teeming supporters of the Party and Nigerians at large should the APC continue in this nefarious scheme.

The PDP further said; “The APC should have nobody but itself to blame. It must bear the full consequences of its recklessness, arrogance, disregard for rules, order and gross violation of its own constitution”.