PDP ACCUSSES INEC CHAIRMAN, YAKUBU OF DENYING ATIKU ACCESS TO ELECTION MATERIALS
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Joseph Omoniyi
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC of denying it’s presidential candidate in the last general election, Atiku Abubakar access to voting materials.
The Appeal Court had on the 6th of March asked INEC to grant the PDP and Atiku access to inspect documents used during the presidential poll on February 23rd.
In a statement released by the party’s National Publicity Secretary and Director, Media & Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organization, Kola Ologbodiyan, the party alleged that this is an attempt by the electoral commission, backed by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC to frustrate Atiku’s petition at the election tribunal.
“This is a deliberate and wicked ploy by INEC, acting in cahoots with the All Progressives Congress (APC), to frustrate the people-backed resolve by Atiku Abubakar and the PDP to timeously file and mention our petition at the Presidential election Tribunal, and by so doing, ambush the case.
“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.”
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.
the party thereby cautions INEC to “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.”
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