PDP Asks INEC Chairman to Resign over Election Postponement

Date: 16-02-2019 7:29 am (5 years ago) | Author: Olusanya Akinrinola
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Uche Secondus, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has asked Mahmood Yakubu to resign as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The PDP chairman said this shortly after the elections were postponed by INEC, adding that his party was rejecting the new dates.

Speaking through Ike Abonyi, his media aide, Secondus said it was a “deliberate, pre-determined agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari to cling on to power even when it’s obvious to him that Nigerians want him out”.

Secondus said the postponement was part of a “grand design” by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to thwart the will of Nigerians “at all cost”.

He said the APC “in connivance with INEC have been trying all options including but not limited to burning down INEC offices in some states and destroying of electoral materials to create artificial problems upon which to stand for their dubious act”.

“With several of their rigging options failing, they have to force INEC to agree to a shift in the election or a staggered election with flimsy excuses pre-manufactured for the purpose.”

“For the avoidance of doubt the PDP sees this action as wicked and we are also aware of other dubious designs like the deployment of hooded security operatives who would be ruthless on the people ostensibly to scare them away.”

Secondus said the “wicked killing” of over 60 persons mostly women and children in southern Kaduna on the eve of election “is a copious ploy by the APC to frighten the people away from voting knowing too well that they were not going to record any vote from the area”.

“Recall that the Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai had earlier threatened international election observers of going to their country in body bags and with the fatal violence in the state on the eve of election, it’s clear what the motives are, to frighten the observers from the state so that he can carry out his nefarious acts,” he said.

The PDP chairman also drew the attention to the statement of President Muhammadu Buhari that nobody can unseat him from office as an indication of what the Federal Government was up to.


Posted: at 16-02-2019 07:29 AM (5 years ago) | Hero
- Henrybobo at 16-02-2019 08:18 AM (5 years ago)
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Many people might over this..  But I believe PDP has a point..  That fool should better resign
Posted: at 16-02-2019 08:18 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Wazubia at 16-02-2019 10:23 AM (5 years ago)
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IM TIRED FOR THIS COUNTRY ZOOGERIA..
Posted: at 16-02-2019 10:23 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Lisabi at 16-02-2019 10:26 AM (5 years ago)
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This is not first time election was postponed in Nigeria. In 2015 PDP postponed  election more than one week. Why crying?
Posted: at 16-02-2019 10:26 AM (5 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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