Edo Guber: PDP Accuses APC, Oshiomhole Of Mounting Pressure On INEC To Rig Poll

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it had uncovered alleged plots by the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its former National Chairman, Adams Oshiohmole, to rig the September 19th governorship election in Edo State.

The party, in a statement issued on Friday by its Spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the alleged plot involved procuring extra result sheets.

Ologbondiyan said the PDP campaign council was aware of how Oshiomhole and APC leaders had been, “threatening and mounting pressure on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Yakubu Mahmood and other officials of the Commission, to secretly provide them with ballot papers and form EC8 election results sheet to facilitate their plans for ballot stuffing and writing of election results.”

According to the party’s spokesman, the party was privy to information that the APC and its candidate allegedly plan to send extra ballot papers and result sheets to thugs in Edo North senatorial district to rig the poll.

Ologbondiyan added: “Already, a base has been established in a neighboring town of Kogi State which will be used to serve for operations in their callous plots.

“Edo North has a borderline with Kogi, a state where unimaginable electoral violence, including burning a woman alive, was perpetrated by the APC in their desperation for electoral manipulation.”

The PDP spokesman also claimed that the party was informed on how two APC governors from the South East and North Central, respectively, plan to fund the alleged rigging plan.

He said, “We believe INEC and security forces have taken note of the direct criminal affront of the law by Ize-Iyamu, in openly directing his cultists and thugs to barefacedly flout election movement restriction order, and move from one polling unit to the other to execute their devilish plots.”

Ologbondiyan also called on the Inspector General of Police to “stand up to the expectation of Nigerians by immediately inviting Ize-Iyamu to explain his directive to the cultists as well as arrest all the hoodlums shown in the video to forestall their plot of unleashing terror on the people of Edo state.

“Moreover, intelligence is filtering regarding alleged plots by certain agents of the APC to cover the tracks, by using certain means to silence some of the thugs after using them.”