The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP), Uche Secondus says that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has concluded arrangement with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to manipulate the electoral process.
Secondus, therefore maintained that his party’s lack of confidence in the activities of INEC, was getting deeper, rather than abetting.
The PDP leader spoke on Wednesday, while receiving a delegation of the European Union of the Election Exploration mission to Nigeria led by Niclay Paus.
According to a statement from the National Chairman’s media office signed by Ike Abonyi, what happened at the governorship election in Osun state merely underscored the party’s fears that INEC was not prepared to be neutral.
He noted that: “though the main agent of the APC in the Commission, a relation of the President, Amina Zakari was deployed from operations department, we asked for her total resignation as she is capable of influencing others within the electoral body.
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“When we eschewed violence after the electoral theft in Osun state and decided to exercise our right to peaceful protest, the Inspector General of Police directed his personnel to tear gas us notwithstanding the personalities involved in the protest; the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, five state governors and National Chairman and members of the National Working Committee NWC and other critical leaders.
“Our fear is strong that the APC and the administration are not disposing themselves for a peaceful 2019 general election and we base our position on the multiplicity of induced crises across the country
“With all the unprecedented blood letting in the country, the President is not engaging the people and a select group operating as cabals have hijacked the system.”
Secondus therefore called on the international partners of Nigeria especially the EU and America to bring their influence to bear on the INEC to conduct free, fair and credible elections.
He also pleaded with them to show more than a passing interest in the activities of security agencies particularly the Police saying that “a biased Police force is an easy way to encouraging violence.”
