The All Progressives
Congress has said the President’s decision to summon INEC Chairman Attahiru
Jega to a meeting that was not attended by other political parties in Abuja on
Tuesday is part of ongoing moves to compromise the integrity of the electoral commission,
which is expected to be fair and neutral.
In a statement issued in
Abuja on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
the party said it is wrong for the President, who himself is a candidate in the
forthcoming elections, to be summoning the electoral umpire at will, especially
when such meetings are populated by his appointees.
”Without the
representatives of other political parties attending such meetings,
irrespective of whether or not it is aimed at briefing security chiefs on the
preparations for the polls, the ruling PDP and its presidential candidate are
seeking to gain undue advantage over others ahead of the elections...
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