EKITI GOV POLL: PDP accuses APC, Fayemi of importing fake policemen, duplicate ballot papers

Hours before the Ekiti governorship election on Saturday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi have been accused of importing fake policemen into the state.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) made the allegation in a statement Friday evening, claiming that the APC and Fayemi
“are clothing thugs imported from Imo and neighbouring states to Ekiti, with fake police uniform to unleash terror on voters on Saturday.

The party also alerts of the collusion between compromised officials of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting (NSPM) PLC and top officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to print matching sensitive voting materials including ballot papers with similar serial numbers to enable scientific rigging of the election for the APC.

“Similarly, the PDP exposes plots by the APC to use the compromised policemen to offer each voter N10,000 ritual money at polling centers to vote for the APC”, the party added in the statement released by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.

“Furthermore the PDP questions why the police personnel detailed to Governor Ayo Fayose have been stripped to five while invading APC governors, such as Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello are individually allowed to move around the state with squads of over 50 policemen and soldiers.

“The PDP is already aware of plots to detail the fake policemen to PDP strongholds to harass voters, attempt to cause confusion, and in the process smuggle in counterfeit result sheets to aid their planned declaration of false results.

“Our party also knows how the duplicate ballot papers were produced with the recently installed SDD German Machine in the Lagos factory under direct supervision of some officials (names withheld) who are to deliver them to Dr. Fayemi.

“What the APC and Dr. Fayemi do not know is that we have been monitoring their movements and we have the identity and scheduling of the fake policemen as well as details of the couriers and movement of the duplicitous ballot papers.

“They do not know that we already discovered the security errors in the fake police uniforms and we have adequately made such known to the people of Ekiti State, who are now fully rallied to expose the impostors and directly bring them to book with every intensity and energy available in a democracy.

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“Consequently, the PDP cautions the fake policemen and the couriers of the duplicitous ballot papers to note that nobody will come to their rescue when they face the wrath of the people,” the party said.

The PDP in a post on its Facebook page earlier, had also claimed that Governor Bello, 10 soldiers and 26 police officers led 78 thugs to Ekiti for Fayemi to attack PDP members in Saturday’s election.

“The governor was sighted in Ise Ekiti and he has been in Medas Hotel since yesterday evening. He has been moving round with thugs in Ekiti State,” the party added.

 

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