Friday, 29 November 2019 05:22

PDP asks INEC chair to resign over ‘confession’ on card reader

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Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to resign over “confession” by two INEC Commissioners; Messers Festus Okoye and Haruna Mohammed on Wednesday, that the “card readers were circumvented” in elections conducted by the commission.

The party, in a statement on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, said the “confession” was an admission that the November 16 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states as well as the Kogi West senatorial polls were rigged.

The party said no matter how much falsehood appears to thrive, the truth will always catch up with it.

PDP argued that the confession by the commission vindicated its position and majority of Nigerians that there were manipulations, alterations and circumventing of genuine data captured by the card readers and that actual results transmitted from polling units were  tampered with.

“While calling on Nigerians to remain calm, PDP charges Mr Yakubu and the INEC leadership under him to do the needful by vacating offices to save our electoral system from complete collapse.

“It is indeed unfortunate that INEC can suddenly claim that it has just realized that the card readers had lost steam in our electoral process after they have been used to manipulate voting processes.

“Yakubu is now faced with the burden of how our electoral system has been corrupted by the manipulations in his INEC, all in the bid to serve group, rather than national interest.

“INEC Chairman should accept his failures and vacate office without further delay. This is because there is no way Nigerians can continue to repose confidence in the commission under his watch,” PDP insisted.

 

Daily Trust

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