The
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s posturing
that he will not manipulate the March 23 governorship supplementary elections
is a direct confession that the Presidency used its influence to rig the
February 23 presidential election.
It said it was also a subterfuge to divert
public attention from APC’s “rigging plots” ahead of the supplementary
elections.
The PDP stated this in a statement by its
National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Monday.
Mr Ologbondiyan stated that the presidency’s
‘confession’ that APC members ”are mounting pressure” on President Buhari to
help them to rig the supplementary elections further confirms the Buhari
Presidency’s “manipulative and rigging capacity, including militarisation of the
electoral process, instigating of violence and alteration of results, as were
freely used by the APC in the Presidential election”.
The Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) has fixed March 23 for supplementary elections in six states (Adamawa,
Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau and Sokoto) where elections were declared
inconclusive.
- Premium Times
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