Rig for Buhari? You’re suffering from ‘recurring hallucination’, INEC replies PDP

Angered by the allegation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari, are in talks with it to rig the forthcoming 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has challenged the PDP to provide evidence or remain silent.

The Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, delivered the commission’s position on Wednesday.

The PDP had advised INEC to distance itself from an alleged plot to compromise the Electoral Guidelines and pave the way for the alteration of the forthcoming general elections results.

The Director, Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, gave the advice at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja.

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Ologbondiyan alleged that Nigerians were already aware that the commission’s Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, was under pressure to drop the display of results at the polling units as well as the electronic transmission of polled figures to the server of the electoral umpire from its guidelines.

He said that the display of results at the polling units ensured that results posted at all levels remained those originally announced at the various polling units, while the electronic transmission to INEC server ensured that the results from the polling centres were not tampered with.

“Prof. Yakubu must not succumb to the pressure of the Buhari Presidency, because doing so will definitely set him on a collision course with Nigerians,” he said.

However, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, dismissed the allegations and urged the PDP to provide the evidence in its possession to prove them.

“Otherwise, the PDP should cure itself of this recurring hallucination which I am sure Nigerians no longer buy. Certainly, INEC is not into the rigging business,” he said.

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