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Nobody can rig us out in supplementary elections –PDP

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ZAMFARA: Supreme Court has saved Nigeria from constitutional crisis - PDP

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it cannot be rigged out in this Saturday’s supplementary elections in some state.

It stated this while accusing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of plots to assist the All Progressives Congress (APC) to manipulate the electoral processes in Bauchi, Sokoto and Adamawa states.

The party said this in a statement by its national publicity secretary Kola Ologbondiyan, during a press conference in Abuja on Friday.

The statement read in part, “In Bauchi, Nigerians are all aware that INEC is yet to complete the collation of results to determine the margin of lead in the governorship election, yet it is proceeding to conduct a supplementary election.

“This anomaly being created by INEC is directly geared to cause confusion and muddle-up the Bauchi electoral process and pave the way for allocation of fictitious votes to the APC.

“The PDP has reports of how the INEC leadership connived with the APC to delay the collation of results from Tafawa Balewa Local government, then stampede the courts to halt the process in an attempt to ambush the March 23 Supplementary election.

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“This informs why INEC hurriedly and shamelessly jettisoned its statutory independence and implemented the unconstitutional ex-parte order to halt the collation of results in Bauchi and Adamawa states, even before the order was enrolled and served on it.

“The PDP cautions INEC to note that it already has the figures of votes delivered at the polling units. We also have figure of voters with PVCs in the areas where INEC plans to conduct supplementary elections. Therefore any attempt by INEC and the APC to pad the results to favor the APC will be firmly resisted.”

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