INEC Designing Special Card Reader, Result Sheets For APC – Secondus Tells ECOWAS TEAM
BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has said that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is working in conjunction with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), to rig the 2019 general elections.
Secondus therefore warned the Chairman of INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu that history will be unkind to him if he fails to conduct free and fair election in 2019.
He stressed that manipulation of elections in 2019 would be a recipe for crisis in the country, saying that the INEC Chairman, Prof Yakubu will be held accountable.
The PDP National Chairman who stated these when he played host to the Election team of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), led by Mohammad Conteh at the party’s National Campaign headquarters in Maitama, Abuja, said that INEC used the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states as rehearsal to practice their rigging strategy for 2019.
A statement from the National Chairman’s media office signed by his media Adviser Ike Abonyi, quoted Secondus as saying; “They have finished their rigging arrangements with preloaded cards and special election result sheets all doctored to favour the ruling APC.
“The INEC Chairman has no strong will to follow our electoral laws and constitution as well as the laid down international standards in his processes towards 2019 and we want to let the World know this before it happens.
“They have finished plots to isolate states of Kano, Benue, Rivers, Buachi, Akwa Ibom, Delta, Imo and Kwara and Lagos for disruption during the general election so they can plan well to mobilize the rigging.”
The PDP National Chairman also alleged that INEC’s rigging agenda is being propelled by the security agencies especially with the current Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris, who has proved to be the most violent bias Police boss in the country.
Secondus said that the PDP is using the INEC template in Ektiti and Osun states to reiterate its lack of confidence in the electoral Commission, adding that nothing has happened to show that there is going to do anything different from what they did in those two states.
The PDP National Chairman advised INEC to disregard the size of Nigeria and go to Ghana and pick some lessons on how to conduct free and fair election.
Secondus however commended the judiciary for standing up for democracy pointing out that without that arm of the government, the country would have been a banana republic.
Secondus fielded questions from the five man team of the sub region body who through their leader expressed the need to have credible election in Nigeria as it would go a long way to deepen democracy in the region.
