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INEC plans to rig 2019 poll in favour of Buhari with underage voting, PDP alleges

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INEC plans to rig 2019 poll in favour of Buhari with underage voting, PDP alleges

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has again alerted of alleged plots by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the coming 2019 general elections in favour of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The PDP said that INEC in its investigation on underage voting discovered a multitude of such happenings, particularly in Kano and Katsina, but has been “instructed by the (All Progressives Congress) APC and the Presidency cabal to conceal the atrocity, which they plan to use to rig the 2019 presidential election for President Muhammadu Buhari.”

The PDP has therefore challenged INEC to stop covering the atrocities of the APC, but go ahead to make public its findings on underage voters in various states, particularly Kano and Katsina states.

The opposition party stated this in a statement by its national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Monday.

The statement read in part, “Our investigation reveals that beyond underage voters, the INEC panel discovered other atrocities, which the APC and the Presidency agents have been suppressing.

“We are also aware of the manipulations in INEC’s computer data center, which has been handed over to a compromised official known to be related to President Buhari.

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“Nigerians are shocked that the INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu is allowing the APC and the Presidency cabal to use him in their desperation to rig the 2019 election for President Buhari despite his overt rejection by the citizens as a result of the failures of his administration.”

PDP also alleged that there are plots by INEC to compromise other voting processes including the card readers to favour the APC.

The PDP had also last week, alleged that INEC is plotting to create 30,000 illegal polling centers in soft and compromised areas through which they plan to allocate free votes for President Buhari, a claim the electoral body had refuted.

 

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