APC bashes PDP over Election Tribunal matters

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as “brazen lies”, allegations by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the Department of State Services (DSS) is interfering with cases before the Election Petition Tribunals, with a view to swaying it in favour of the APC.

The party also alleged that the PDP “lies” are to cover the rigging perpetrated by the former ruling party during the last general elections, adding, that it is “a futile attempt by the PDP to pull the wool over the eyes of Nigerians”.

National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed in a statement in Lagos on Thursday said not only did the PDP “lied shamelessly” in making the allegation, but that the opposition party is also “trying to muddle the waters on the true situation concerning the case before the Rivers State Election Petitions Tribunal – which precipitated the PDP’s frivolous accusation in the first instance.”

APC explained that the invitation of some officials from the Rivers State office of the Independent National Electoral Commission was prompted by a petition to the Inspector General of Police and the Director-General, DSS, by the APC that the officials were colluding with the PDP to deny the APC access to key documents used for the last governorship and House of Assembly elections in the state.

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Also contained in the petition, APC said, was the allegation that some directors at the INEC head office in Abuja had been trying to deny the APC access to some documents used for the said elections but domiciled at the Commission’s head office.

This, the party added, was despite that the INEC Chairman had promptly attended to the issue and directed the said officials to furnish the needed documents.

APC stated that the IG had directed, upon the receipt of the APC petition, that the matter be investigated and that the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Rivers State should be invited.

The party said, “Therefore, the PDP’s wolf crying over a conspiracy it orchestrated with the Rivers INEC to deny the APC access to documents used for the said elections amounts to barefaced lies and a clear attempt at distorting facts.

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