PDP Demands INEC Chairman Resignation, Accuses APC Of Plan To Rig Election

By Talatu Bala

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has demanded Mahmood Yakubu to resign as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Speaking through  his media aide, ke Abonyi  immediately after the elections were postponed by INEC, Secondus said his party was rejecting the new dates.

He said it was a “deliberate, pre-determined agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari to cling on to power even when it’s obvious to him that Nigerians want him out”.

Secondus said the postponement was part of a “grand plan” by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to prevent the will of Nigerians “at all cost”.

He said the APC “in connivance with INEC have been trying all options including but not limited to burning down INEC offices in some states and destroying of electoral materials to create artificial problems upon which to stand for their dubious act”.

“With several of their rigging options failing, they have to force INEC to agree to a shift in the election or a staggered election with flimsy excuses pre-manufactured for the purpose,” he said in a statement issued to reporters.

According to the statement, “For the avoidance of doubt the PDP sees this action as wicked and we are also aware of other dubious designs like the deployment of hooded security operatives who would be ruthless on the people ostensibly to scare them away.”

Secondus said the  killing of over 60 persons mostly women and children in southern Kaduna on the eve of election “is a copious ploy by the APC to frighten the people away from voting knowing too well that they were not going to record any vote from the area”.