Defending APC, Signals INEC’s Compromise -PDP

Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PPCO), yesterday lambasted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for defending the All Progressives Congress (APC), describing the commission’s defence of the ruling party as suspicious.
The campaign organisation said that the defence is not only suspicious, but that the commission has been compromised and also that the action is a rigging plot.
PPCO said that the haste in which INEC hurled insults at the PDP and defended the APC over the alleged pressure on it to drop the display of results at polling centres, evinces that the Commission is compromised ahead of the 2019 polls.
The campaign organisation, in a statement by its Director, Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, said “Nigerians were shocked when the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, through his Media Aide, hurled insults at the PDP as ‘hallucinating’ in response to PDP’s caution to the commission not to succumb to pressure and enticements by the APC and the Buhari Presidency to drop the result display and the electronic transmission of results to its main server.
“In resorting to insults and engaging in a campaign of calumny instead of words of assurances to stakeholders, INEC has made a dive into the arena and accentuated anxieties by Nigerians as well as the international community that it is being compromised by the APC and the Buhari Presidency.
“However, these needless insult of our party notwithstanding, we shall continue to hold the Prof Yakubu-led INEC to its responsibility to deliver a transparent, free, fair and credible 2019 general elections.
“It is also instructive for INEC to know that nothing will deter us from monitoring all the processes leading to this year’s general elections and hold the Commission accountable on every perceived infraction.”
The PPCO warned that on no account must INEC drop the display of results at the polling units and the electronic transmission of results to its server from its guidelines as being pressured by the APC and Buhari Presidency.
The campaign organisation further rejected any plan to use former National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) members as polls officials as this will amount to handing over the electoral process directly to the APC and the Buhari Presidency.