How INEC plans to rig Osun gov election for APC– Timi Frank

Alleged plot on how the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) wants to rig this Saturday governorship election in Osun State in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been revealed.

A former deputy national publicity secretary of the APC, Comrade Timi Frank, made the revelation in a statement he made available to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday.

Frank, who recently dumped the ruling APC said the latest plot is a scientific rigging method developed by the ruling party.

He therefore called on all observers to Osun election to take note of the rigging style.

He further warned the INEC boss, Mahmood Yakubu, to either desist from the plot or step aside if he cannot disobey the APC in the interest of justice.

The former APC chieftain said he got the information of the plot and how it will employed during Osun governorship poll from multiple sources.

“The latest rigging method was first used in Ekiti governorship election, where the APC won with 19000 votes and INEC cancelled over 19000 votes as a result of faulty machines in the strongholds of the People Democratic Party (PDP).

“The people of Osun should be alerted to the latest method and resist to vote until faulty Card Reader is changed wherever because the plan is to cancel such places where Card Reader malfunction.

“We are also calling on local and international observers to be conscious of this information ahead of Saturday election.

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“Nigerians should be worried that if the INEC could not deploy functional Card Readers and other machines to conduct peaceful and credible elections in just one state of the federation despite the huge amount of money the body is getting, what is the assurance that the same body will be fair to all in 2019?

“One would begin to suspect whether the latest rigging method is what is giving the APC assurance and the reason why its leaders are boasting of winning the yet to be conducted election already,” he said.

 

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