Election postponement Buhari’s agenda, PDP says, calls for INEC chair resignation

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

It accused President Muhammadu Buhari of masterminding the postponement and called for the immediate resignation of the INEC chairman for the embarrassing development.

INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood, had early Saturday morning, few hours before the commencement of the presidential and National Assembly election, announced the postponement of the election to February 23, while the governorship and House of Assembly poll scheduled earlier for March 2, to hold on March 9.

But reacting to the development, PDP claimed the “trashy” arrangements for the elections by the INEC was a deliberate agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari to cling on to power even when “it was obvious to him that Nigerians wanted him out.”

PDP national chairman, Prince Secondus, who stated this soon after the shift in election announcement, further alleged that the postponement was part of a grand design by the ruling APC to thwart the will of Nigerians at all cost.

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

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He warned that PDP will not take “anything short of a well organised electoral process devoid of manipulation, harassment and intimidation of voters and the opposition particularly members of the PDP.”

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