THE Nationwide Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Get together, Uche Secondus, on Sunday, raised the alarm over an alleged underhand rigging of the 2023 basic election by the All Progressives Congress.
Secondus stated this in an announcement titled, “APC has begun the rigging of 2023 Polls, Secondus screams…says INEC is abdicating its obligations,” signed by his Media Adviser, Ike Abonyi.
He alleged that there have been sturdy indications that the President, Main Basic Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), and his get together, the APC, have been averse to conducting free, honest and clear elections in 2023.
The PDP Nationwide Chairman was reacting to a media report on the weekend exhibiting that the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, was stopping its procurement of E- voting machines forward of 2023 due to the rejection of e-mode of transmission of outcomes by the Nationwide Meeting.
The assertion learn partially, “Secondus famous that because the present Electoral Act and the Structure provides unilateral powers to INEC to conduct credible elections in Nigeria, it doesn’t want the Nationwide Meeting’s place to do its professional duties.
“From all indications, INEC is attempting to abdicate its constitutionally assigned obligations of conducting free, honest and clear elections hiding underneath the duvet of delayed amended Electoral Act or rejection of e-transmission of outcomes.”
He noticed that if the identical INEC may conduct governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states in September and October final yr respectively; with out the amended Electoral Act, it may well nonetheless be achieved everywhere in the nation.
Makes an attempt to get an official response to the PDP assertion have been futile. As on the time of submitting this report,9.05pm, calls and messages despatched to get together officers have been but to be responded to. Nevertheless, a celebration official who requested to not be named stated, “We’ll reply in the end.”
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