The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to declare the party’s candidate, Ademola Adeleke, winner of the Osun State governorship election.
The election was held on Saturday but declared inconclusive by INEC after collation of results.
It argued that there were some areas of the state where there were crisis and some votes were cancelled.
But in the statement signed by his media aide, Ike Abonyi, Secondus said that the PDP would not accept anything less than its deserved victory because the party won the election clearly and unambiguously.
He said after INEC allegedly robbed the party of victory in Ekiti State, after the PDP won glaringly in Osun State it came up with another story of election being inconclusive.
He claimed the excuse was just to pacify their pay masters.
He said the Chairman of INEC Prof. Yakubu Mahmood, should be held responsible for brewing crisis in the country ahead of 2019 “ in his greed to satisfy the agenda of his appointees.”
Secondus warned that if what they did in Ekiti and Osun states elections were rehearsals of what they were planning for 2019, there might be no Nigeria and INEC and APC should be held responsible.
He also drew the attention of the nation’s security apparatchik to the possible threat to peace and oneness of Nigeria “by the rigging of elections by a supposedly independent electoral umpire.”
The PDP boss wondered what President Muhammadu Buhari who left the country to US for United Nations General Assembly would be telling democratic community when he could not conduct simple state governorship election.
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“What other evidence do the democratic watchers and security agencies need to establish obvious bias from INEC when the commission’s administrative officer caught destroying result sheets in Ayedade local government àrea where over a thousand votes belonging to PDP were removed confirmed acting on the instruction of his superior officer.
“What will President Buhari be telling democratic world at the UN when back home he has brutalized all agents of democracy and has been unable to conduct a simple state bye election.”
Secondus described as shameless, INEC taking instructions from the APC and deciding to declare the result inconclusive when it was obvious to all watchers that the PDP candidate won the election.
The national chairman praised the people of Osun State for their dexterity and vigilance that led to the arrest of the fraudulent INEC official as he called on the international community to watch closely and condemn the electoral commission for alleged lack of neutrality ahead of 2019 general election.
