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Election postponement: PDP asks INEC chair to resign


The Peoples Democratic Party has rejected the new dates announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the conduct of the general elections.



It alleged that the shoddy arrangement for the elections by the commission was a deliberate agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari to cling on to power even when it said it was obvious to him that Nigerians wanted him out.



National Chairman of the party, Prince Secondus, stated this while reacting to the pronouncements made by the chairman of the commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu in the early hours of Saturday that the elections had been postponed.



He added that the action had clearly exposed INEC as a failure and called on its chairman to resign immediately.



The PDP leader warned that the party would not accept “anything short of a well organised electoral process devoid of manipulation, harassment and intimidation of voters and the opposition particularly members of the PDP.”



He added, “Having failed in all their nefarious options to enable them cling on to power, the APC and the INEC came up with the idea of shifting election, an action that is dangerous to our democracy and is therefore unacceptable.”



Secondus added that the APC, in connivance with the INEC, “has been trying all options including but not limited to burning down INEC offices in some states and destroying of electoral materials to create artificial problems upon which to stand for their dubious act.”



According to a statement from the national chairman’s media office signed by Ike Abonyi, Secondus said that the party was privy to the alleged pressure from the APC and the Federal Government to allegedly arm-twist INEC, to dance to their new strategy after earlier ones failed.



He said, “With several of their rigging options failing, they have to force INEC to agree to a shift in the election or a staggered election with flimsy excuses pre manufactured for the purpose.



“For the avoidance of doubt, the PDP sees this action as wicked and we are also aware of other dubious designs like the deployment of hooded security operatives who would be ruthless on the people ostensibly to scare them away.”



He said that by this action, the President had allegedly further demonstrated his “insensitivity costing the huge cost after Nigerians, including those who came home from abroad, have all mobilised to their various constituencies.”



He recalled that the PDP had earlier alerted Nigerians that the APC was allegedly coming up with rigging strategies including “burning down of INEC offices and engineering crisis in PDP stronghold areas to scare away the people.”



Secondus said that the wicked killing of over 60 persons mostly women and children in Southern Kaduna on the eve of election was a copious ploy by the APC to frighten the people away from voting, knowing too well that they were not going to record any vote from the area.
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