{"id":68517,"date":"2019-08-19T19:58:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T18:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=68517"},"modified":"2019-08-19T19:58:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T18:58:58","slug":"briyia-inec-use-of-apc-members-to-write-figures-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/briyia-inec-use-of-apc-members-to-write-figures-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Briyia: INEC Use of APC Members to Write Figures Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m-4274470509887867062\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the manifestation of Mr.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">Frankland Briyia, the erstwhile Cross River state Resident Electoral<br \/>\nCommissioner (REC), as an All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship<br \/>\naspirant in Bayelsa state, while still in office, is a direct<br \/>\nconfirmation that the APC used its members to write figures for<br \/>\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari in the February Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The party in a ststement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan &#8220;notes that Mr.<br \/>\nBriyia\u2019s governorship ambition on the platform of the APC, which he<br \/>\nannounced while still in the confines of his office as REC, amply<br \/>\nexposed INEC as a partisan electoral umpire under the watch of Professor<br \/>\nYakubu Mahmud.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PDP states that the fact that President Muhammadu Buhari did not<br \/>\nsanction Mr. Briyia, even after he brazenly announced his ambition right<br \/>\nin INEC facility, betrays APC\u2019s embedded interests in the commission,<br \/>\nwhich manifested in the manipulation of processes related to the<br \/>\nPresidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PDP invites Nigerians to note that INEC, in a recent statement,<br \/>\ndenied receiving any resignation letter from Mr. Briyia at the time he<br \/>\nannounced his governorship ambition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our party therefore calls on President Buhari to come out clean on the<br \/>\nreal reason he failed to sanction the Cross River REC in line with the<br \/>\nlaw.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PDP also urges Mr. President to speak out on allegations in the<br \/>\npublic space that his Presidency failed to sanction Mr. Briyia because<br \/>\nof the role he allegedly played in favour of the APC in the Presidential<br \/>\nelection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The party however expressed confidence that justice will definitely be<br \/>\nserved at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal where Nigerians<br \/>\nrepose hope for the retrieval of the Presidential mandate stolen by the<br \/>\nAPC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Insisting that INEC must be sanitized, the PDP calls on the National<br \/>\nAssembly to open a public hearing on the issue as a well as effect<br \/>\namendments in the Electoral Act to check the appointment and retention<br \/>\nof persons with political leanings as electoral officers as well as<br \/>\nrecommending stringent sanctions for infringements in that direction.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\"><\/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 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the manifestation of Mr. Frankland Briyia, the erstwhile Cross River state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), as an All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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