{"id":65561,"date":"2019-03-18T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=65561"},"modified":"2019-03-18T00:18:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T23:18:07","slug":"apc-accuses-inec-of-working-to-rig-rivers-bauchi-others-for-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/apc-accuses-inec-of-working-to-rig-rivers-bauchi-others-for-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Accuses INEC of Working To Rig Rivers, Bauchi, others For PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m4831692877778203319\" class=\"mail-message \">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">The All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the Independent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m-1748545429790049475\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">National Electoral Commission, INEC, over its decision declaring<br \/>\ninconclusive elections in six states, saying such illegalities must stop.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by the Party&#8217;s spokesman, Mr. Lanre Issa-Onilu, alleged<br \/>\nthat in Rivers state particularly, INEC is working with Governor Nyesom<br \/>\nWike to rig the elections.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads:<\/p>\n<p>After the March 9 governorship elections across the country, the polls in<br \/>\nsix states \u2013 Adamawa, Bauchi, Benue, Kano, Plateau and Sokoto \u2013 were<br \/>\ndeclared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission<br \/>\n(INEC). The electoral process was also suspended in Rivers state in a very<br \/>\nfraudulent circumstance.<\/p>\n<p>Post election, Nigerians will recall that the All Progressives Congress<br \/>\n(APC) had severally raised alarm over the plot by the opposition Peoples<br \/>\nDemocratic Party (PDP) to use violence, vote-buying and other election<br \/>\nmalpractices to subvert the will of the electorate and steal their<br \/>\nmandate.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking events leading to the last-minute postponement of the<br \/>\npresidential election provided clear evidence with PDP agents caught in<br \/>\ndifferent parts of the country with programmed card readers, sensitive<br \/>\nelection materials and large cache of weapons and security paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>Undeterred, the PDP executed its rigging plot through its agents across<br \/>\nthe country by unleashing violence, vote-buying and hijacking election<br \/>\nmaterials to rig and falsify elections results. The result was violent<br \/>\ndisruption in many polling areas and over-voting which led to many<br \/>\ncancelled votes and ultimately the supplementary elections and suspended<br \/>\nexercise in some states.<\/p>\n<p>BENUE<\/p>\n<p>INEC declared the governorship election in Benue State inconclusive,<br \/>\nciting an insufficient margin in votes obtained by the APC candidate Barr.<br \/>\nEmmanuel Jime and the PDP candidate, Governor Samuel Ortom.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the PDP claims a bogus lead of over 81,000 votes, reports<br \/>\nstrongly establish that this dodgy figure is an aggregate of &#8216;votes&#8217;<br \/>\nobtained by subterfuge not from the numbers recorded by the card reader.<\/p>\n<p>There were cases in Logo, Gwer-West, Vandeikya, Guma, Buruku and Gboko<br \/>\nLocal governments where the card reader was not used.<\/p>\n<p>In Guma, a local government predominated by the APC, zero votes were<br \/>\nallocated to our candidate by thugs loyal to the governor of the State, as<br \/>\nagents of the party were chased away and election material diverted and<br \/>\nballot papers thumb-printed for the governorship candidate of the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>In Logo, security reports indicated that the ballot papers were massively<br \/>\nthumb-printed the night before the election day, while a brazen case of<br \/>\nunder-age voting supervised by state government compromised security<br \/>\npersonnel, was prevalent on the actual day of voting.<\/p>\n<p>INEC also reported that 41 polling units in Vandeikya did not use the card<br \/>\nreader, as it was the case in many in Gwer-West, Gwer-East, Gboko and<br \/>\nother places.<\/p>\n<p>A coalition of election observers in Benue has since called on INEC to<br \/>\ndeclare the candidate of the APC, Barr. Emmanuel Jime, the winner of the<br \/>\ngovernorship polls, in line with the Electoral Act and we align with the<br \/>\nposition of these observers.<\/p>\n<p>There is no doubt that our candidate obtained the highest number of<br \/>\nlegitimate votes obtained with the usage of the card reader.<\/p>\n<p>RIVERS<\/p>\n<p>We are concerned and deeply troubled by the unfolding events in Rivers<br \/>\nState. The APC strongly condemns this horrid dance in Rivers State. This<br \/>\nunholy alliance between Governor Nyesom Wike, PDP and INEC is to prevent<br \/>\nRivers people from electing a candidate of their choice by imposing Wike,<br \/>\nthe PDP candidate on them. It was glaring that Wike was losing until INEC<br \/>\nstepped in to halt the process apparently to save Wike from impending<br \/>\ndefeat. INEC must put a halt to this madness and brazen illegality.<\/p>\n<p>The desperation of the PDP governorship candidate, Governor Nyesom Wike to<br \/>\nremain in office even if it means destroying the State and killing its<br \/>\npeople, is throwing the State into turmoil and crisis.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to the governorship election in Rivers State, APC has observed<br \/>\nwith dismay the macabre dance between Wike and INEC in Rivers State. It is<br \/>\non record that Wike through the Rivers State Resident Electoral<br \/>\nCommissioner (REC), Obo Effanga engaged PDP card-carrying members as Local<br \/>\nGovernment Area (LGA) Collation Officers to skew the elections in favour<br \/>\nof Wike and the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>We call on the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to immediately redeploy<br \/>\nMr. Effanga from Rivers State in order to avoid crisis that may follow the<br \/>\norganised crime being executed by Wike and Obo Effanga to rig and alter<br \/>\nthe result of the 2019 governorship polls in Rivers State in favour of<br \/>\nWike.<\/p>\n<p>Since the suspension of the electoral process in Rivers State, Governor<br \/>\nNyesom Wike and the State REC Obo Effanga have been re-writing and<br \/>\ndoctoring unit results in Rivers State Government House to favour Wike.<\/p>\n<p>We are dismayed that some sponsored stakeholders including those who<br \/>\nwitnessed the killing of over 40 persons on the 2015 governorship election<br \/>\nday alone due to someone\u2019s quest to become governor by all means, appear<br \/>\nto be hoodwinked by the very same character to believe that security<br \/>\nagents especially the Army should have stayed away to allow a repetition<br \/>\nof what happened in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>As a party that was solely at the receiving end of the killings in Rivers<br \/>\nState, the APC believes that the proactive steps taken by security agents<br \/>\nto checkmate a repeat of the 2015 killings and destructions, is<br \/>\ncommendable and should be applauded by all peace-loving people.<\/p>\n<p>We call on Nigerians and the international community not to be hoodwinked<br \/>\ninto believing that Nigerian security agencies interfered in the electoral<br \/>\nprocess in Rivers State. It is a misleading narrative being planted in the<br \/>\nmedia to particularly blackmail the military and the federal government<br \/>\ninto pulling out security agents from the state, thereby returning the<br \/>\nState to the killing field many of us witnessed before, during and after<br \/>\nthe 2015 elections.<\/p>\n<p>It is now clear to all that INEC has become deaf and blind to the fact<br \/>\nthat Governor Nyesom Wike invaded the Obio\/Akpor Collation Centre with<br \/>\nover 200 armed thugs and ordered his security men to shoot an Army Captain<br \/>\nand another soldier providing perimeter security to the Collation Centre.<br \/>\nWike\u2019s thugs carted away the electoral materials including both original<br \/>\ncopies of unit result sheets and ward collation sheets that were being<br \/>\nused for the collation of results and took them to the Rivers State<br \/>\nGovernment House where they were filled out with rigged and inflated<br \/>\nfigures.<\/p>\n<p>We report that in most of the LGAs in the State, voting had concluded,<br \/>\nresults declared at the polling units and collation had begun before the<br \/>\nabrupt suspension of the process. INEC does not have the power under our<br \/>\nElectoral Act to suspend elections that has already been concluded. We<br \/>\nsuspect that INEC might be working to surreptitiously bring in cooked up<br \/>\nresults credited to Obio\/Akpor LGA to skew the election in favour of Wike.<br \/>\nWe vehemently reject this anti-democratic move.<\/p>\n<p>PLATEAU<\/p>\n<p>In Plateau state, our comfortable lead is unassailable. We however urge<br \/>\nour members, supporters and indeed the entire Plateau electorate not to be<br \/>\ncomplacent, but remain focused as we prepare for the supplementary<br \/>\nelection that will give our performing candidate, Governor Simon Lalong a<br \/>\nsecond term in office to consolidate on his first-term achievement.<\/p>\n<p>KANO<\/p>\n<p>The opposition PDP camp in its self-deceit has continued to delude itself<br \/>\non its nonexistent electoral chance in Nasarawa local government area. The<br \/>\nKano electorate are not deceived.<\/p>\n<p>Considering what happened in the inconclusive election widely<br \/>\ncharacterized by PDP vote buying and voter intimidation, relevant agencies<br \/>\nmust ensure that such antidemocratic practice is not repeated.<\/p>\n<p>It is on record how the Kano State Police Commissioner actively assisted<br \/>\nthe opposition PDP to rig inside Kano city with the deployment of police<br \/>\nsecurity for Rabiu Kwankwaso loyalists while state commissioner&#8217;s<br \/>\norderlies were withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>Kano remains an APC state. With the massive votes garnered by our<br \/>\npresidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari; the entire incoming 9th National<br \/>\nAssembly positions &#8211; 3 Senators and 24 House of Representatives &#8211; won by<br \/>\nthe APC in Kano State; 27 State House of Assembly seats won by the APC out<br \/>\nof 39 and governorship election victories in all local governments outside<br \/>\nKano metropolitan, there is no doubt that Kano State is a stronghold and<br \/>\nkey support base of the APC.<\/p>\n<p>The APC&#8217;s visible achievements in Kano state under Governor Abdullahi<br \/>\nGanduje are enough to give the party an emphatic victory in the rerun<br \/>\nelection. Again, the rerun will be mostly in APC-controlled rural areas<br \/>\nand Nasarawa local government area where our Deputy Governor, Nasiru Yusuf<br \/>\nGawuna is from. Undoubtedly, Kano state remains an APC stronghold and<br \/>\nremains in our firm control.<\/p>\n<p>BAUCHI<\/p>\n<p>We reject INEC&#8217;s decision on the governorship election results from Tafawa<br \/>\nBalewa local government area in Bauchi State, as signed and announced by<br \/>\nthe electoral body&#8217;s National Commissioner and chairman of its Information<br \/>\nand Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye.<\/p>\n<p>While the close relationship between Festus Okoye who chaired the<br \/>\nfact-finding committee and Yakubu Dogara of the PDP is well known, hence<br \/>\ninappropriate for the fact-finding exercise for Bauchi state, INEC has<br \/>\nfailed to adhere to the fundamental principle of fair-hearing by not<br \/>\ninviting our agents during the hearing to ascertain the circumstances<br \/>\nleading to the cancellation of the Tafawa Balewa local government election<br \/>\nresult.<\/p>\n<p>INEC&#8217;s decision is illegal as the electoral body and contravenes the<br \/>\nprovisions of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended<\/p>\n<p>We reiterate that according to Nigeria&#8217;s 1999 Constitution (as amended)<br \/>\nand INEC Guidelines for 2019 General Elections, the electoral body is not<br \/>\nempowered to reverse any decision taken at the Collation Centre by the<br \/>\nReturning Officer appointed for that purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Such decisions can only be reversed by a court of law, especially when<br \/>\nINEC cannot approbate and reprobate.<\/p>\n<p>SOKOTO<\/p>\n<p>As displayed in the results of the presidential election, Sokoto is a<br \/>\nstrong APC state. This rubbishes the suspicious and apparently stolen<br \/>\nresults ascribed to the PDP governorship candidate.<\/p>\n<p>It is on record how the PDP candidate and state governor, Aminu Tambuwal<br \/>\nused thugs and fake security agents to scare voters in the state. This<br \/>\ngave PDP agents a free and field day to rig and manipulate the<br \/>\ngovernorship election.<\/p>\n<p>We are also aware how the huge monies were used to buy votes and how<br \/>\ncomplicit INEC officials disenfranchised APC members by purporting that<br \/>\ncard readers machines stopped working in APC strongholds..<\/p>\n<p>The forthcoming supplementary election in Sokoto state gives the APC; our<br \/>\ngovernorship candidate, Aliyu Ahmed and indeed the Sokoto electorate and<br \/>\nan opportunity claim our mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Sokoto state is ready for the Next Level, we must not allow unpopular<br \/>\nelements in the state and their backers in the discredited PDP to steal<br \/>\ntheir mandate and subvert the will of the Sokoto electorate.<\/p>\n<p>ADAMAWA<\/p>\n<p>In Adamawa, the party had reported over-voting and use of security<br \/>\npersonnel to intimidate APC agents and supporters. While we are confident<br \/>\nof our party and candidate Governor Jibrilla Bindow\u2019s victory ahead of the<br \/>\nsupplementary election in the state, we urge all stakeholders to avoid<br \/>\nactions that can plunge the state into crisis.<\/p>\n<p>We equally urge INEC and relevant security agencies to ensure the<br \/>\nsupplementary election is free, peaceful and fair compared to the last<br \/>\ninconclusive governorship election in the state which was characterised by<br \/>\nmany irregularities and voter intimidation. No political ambition is worth<br \/>\nthe life of any voters.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, as a party, the APC is very confident of victory in the<br \/>\nforthcoming supplementary elections. Our commitment to free and fair<br \/>\nelections in the county remains resolute. We urge INEC to ensure that all<br \/>\nloopholes that led to rigging, vote buying and intimidation of voters by<br \/>\nthe PDP is blocked.<\/p>\n<p>SIGNED:<\/p>\n<p>Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu<\/p>\n<p>National Publicity Secretary<\/p>\n<p>All Progressives Congress (APC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"m-8659944383312808344\" class=\"mail-message\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conversation-footer\" class=\"spacer\"><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has challenged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, over its decision declaring inconclusive elections in six states, saying such illegalities must stop. 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