EU Report Has Exposed INEC, APC Fraud – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP on Sunday praised the European Union report on the 2019 General Election as another vindication of what it described as the iniquity committed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in upturning the will of the people.

Responding to the report of the EU observer team, the PDP said detailed observations of unexplained cancellations outright falsifications among others showed that the election was rigged to favour the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate, President Muhammadu Buhari.

The PDP statement issued by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondinyan read in part:

 “The world can now see that the PDP has not been crying wolf in insisting that the election was outrightly rigged with the cancellation of millions of PDP votes, alteration of results and allocation of fictitious votes to the APC.

“Nigerians are still in shock over the revelations by EU of how about 2.8 million votes were deliberately ‘cancelled without sufficient accountability’ and how several returning officers gave no reason for the cancellations.

“More shocking is the iniquity committed at the national collation centre, headed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC chairman, where the EU report exposed inconsistent numbers, distortions and “a large discrepancy of ‘1.66 million more registered voters, as announced by INEC on 14 January, compared to those announced by state returning officers during the collation of presidential results.’

“Nigerians witnessed, on national television, how professors and returning officers were unable to reconcile result figures due to heavy manipulations upon which INEC declared the APC winner.”

Noting what it described as “the iniquity committed by the Professor Mahmood Yakubu-led INEC by listing how ballot boxes were compromised, how essential materials were missing, how ‘voter register was not always ticked as required,’ and how ‘manual authentication procedures were not correctly followed.’

“The report also bared how figures on result forms did not reconcile, how result forms were not publicly posted, how ‘result forms and smart card readers were not packed in tamper-evident envelops as required,’ in addition to how the APC administration used security forces to intimidate voters, aid violence against our members and muscled votes for the APC.”

Calling for justice through the annulment of the election and the punishment of those in the Election Management Body who supposedly committed the offence, the PDP concluded:

“The PDP insists that those in INEC, who perpetrated such crime against our nation, in sabotaging the sanctity of our electoral processes to frustrate the choice of Nigerians in a Presidential election, must be brought to book and made to face the wrath of the law.”

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