The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other stakeholders against manipulating Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi, Bayelsa and Imo States.
The national publicity
secretary of PDP, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, said the party will not stand by and watch
the elections manipulated.
Ologunagba further warned that it will not accept results that are not consistent with the will of the people.
He decried that less than four
days to the election, the INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has not
redeployed Prof. Sylvia Agu, the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC),
despite the widespread outcry.
The party had charged the INEC
chairman to emulate the Inspector General of Police (IGP), who redeployed the
Imo state Commissioner of Police after public outcry.
The party said: “Information
available to us indicates that INEC had held several meetings on the Imo
election and that preponderance of opinion in INEC was that it was imperative
that Prof. Sylvia Agu should be redeployed in order to maintain the integrity
and neutrality of INEC.
“The INEC Chairman should not
succumb to the alleged pressure from the APC, especially from an APC national
officer said to be related to Prof. Sylvia Agu.
“It is in the interest of Prof.
Agu to recuse herself from participating, supervising or superintending the
Saturday, November 11, election in Imo State
“The PDP is aware of Prof.
Agu’s mission which is to compromise and manipulate the election in favour of
the APC, having regards to her antecedent in previous elections.
“The PDP wants to state that our party and candidate are winning the Imo election and we and the people of Imo State will never fold our hands and watch the election manipulated by anybody whatsoever.
“The PDP believe that the INEC
Chairman knows the implication of any attempt to compromise election in a State
like Imo. He should heed the voice of reason and redeploy Prof Agu
immediately.”
“We are set to win
overwhelmingly in Imo State because of the acceptability of our candidate and
party among the people. He is accessible, grassroot politician, humane,
understands and connects to the suffering of the people.”
Speaking on Kogi, the party
said that Governor Yahaya Bello is also overwhelmed with fear and has
technically accepted defeat.
PDP said: “Governor Yayaha
Bello is already overwhelmed and he has technically accepted defeat, especially
with the triumph of Senator Hadiza Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, in the Kogi Central
Senatoral District which is an affirmation of the popularity and acceptability
of our Party in the State.
“The APC has lost its voice,
that is why they are no longer campaigning in Kogi State.
“The APC is now jittery and in
mortal fear of the PDP. Only this morning, the APC-led Kogi State Government
denied our Party the use of the Confluence Stadium, Lokoja for our Campaign
grand-finale scheduled for Thursday.
“This panic mode of the APC
cannot stop our Party and the people of Kogi State. We will hold our Rally and
go ahead to win the Governorship election in Kogi State on Saturday.”
On Bayelsa, the PDP said that
the candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Timipre Sylva, has no
fighting chance in the face of the more popular candidate of the PDP, Governor
Douye Diri.
The party said: “The APC
Candidate, Timipre Sylva has no fighting chance in the face of the more popular
candidate of the PDP. He has no message; the APC is practically dead in Bayelsa
and cannot win in any Local Government of the State.”
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