{"id":104683,"date":"2023-05-07T21:41:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T20:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=104683"},"modified":"2023-05-07T21:41:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T20:41:57","slug":"apc-plotting-to-influence-outcome-of-presidential-election-petition-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/apc-plotting-to-influence-outcome-of-presidential-election-petition-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"APC plotting to influence outcome of Presidential election petition \u2013 PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nThe People\u2019s Democratic Party has raised alarm over an alleged plot by the ruling All Progressives Congress to influence the outcome of ongoing cases at the Presidential Election petition Tribunal.<\/p>\n

National Publicity Secretary of the party, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, raised the alarm at a press conference, in Abuja, on Sunday.<\/p><\/div>\n

\nHe said the PDP was alerting\u00a0 Nigerians and the International Community of the shocking revelations, reports and allegations of plots by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to influence the outcome of the Presidential election Petition currently pending before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Ologunagba said, \u201cThe PDP also alerts of recent intimidation, harassment, threats and vicious attacks by APC leaders against Nigerian youths and eminent Nigerian personalities for speaking out against APC\u2019s planned moves to install a government that does not enjoy the mandate of majority of Nigerians as expressed at the Polling Units.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe alleged planned onslaught by APC leaders on eminent Nigerians and our democratic institutions, including the Judiciary, stems from APC\u2019s apprehensions given the weight of evidence against it as well as the continuing refusal by majority of Nigerians to accept the outcome of the flawed Presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are apprehensions in the public space, having regards to the reputation of certain individuals within the highest level of the APC who have demonstrated capacity and proclivity to compromise democratic institutions in our country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be recalled that on Friday, May 5, 2023, our Party raised alarm over the massively condemned comments by the APC Presidential Candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the commissioning of some judiciary projects in Port-Harcourt Rivers State, wherein he attempted to corrupt, cultivate and patronize the Judiciary.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore alarming are allegations in the public space of attempts by certain APC leaders to compromise the judiciary with heavy financial inducement and to orchestrate trumped-up allegations of impropriety against judicial officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe PDP calls on the APC and its leaders to immediately come clean and publicly address Nigerians and the world on these disturbing allegations and revelations which are already in the public domain.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurther to this is the provocative resort by the APC and its leaders to threaten Nigerians with treason for speaking out against the manipulations of our democratic processes by the APC.\u201d<\/p>\n

The PDP Spokesman further said, \u201cFor emphasis, majority of Nigerians are insisting on the review of the February 25, 2023 Presidential election because it was marred by wide-spread manipulations, open alteration of genuine election results from the Polling Units, allocation of fictitious figures to the APC and brazen violation of the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), the Electoral Act, 2022 as well as INEC Manual and Guidelines by INEC itself in its declaration of a winner of the election.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bizarre response by INEC, which is an umpire that ought to be independent, to the Petition of the PDP and our Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, requesting for the dismissal of our Petition, is further evidence of the complicity, corruption and compromise of INEC by the APC.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is instructive for INEC and the APC to note that the tribunal hearing is part of the electoral process. The APC and INEC are therefore advised to halt further steps to hinder the ability of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to dispense justice in the matter in accordance with the law<\/p>\n

\u201cThe PDP therefore restates its call on the Judiciary to resist and insulate itself from the alleged and reported antics of the APC in the discharge of its Constitutional duties as independent and impartial arbiter in the pending Petition before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is imperative to state that the reckless violation by INEC of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended), the Electoral Act, 2022, INEC Guidelines and Manual in the 2023 Presidential election portend grave consequences to our democracy and political stability as a country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only way to guarantee peace, unity and stability of our nation is to uphold the Will of the people as expressed at the Polling Units in the February 25, 2023 Presidential election and the PDP is confident in the ability of the Judiciary to discharge its Constitutional duties in this regard independently.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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