National Publicity Secretary of PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan,
rejected Buhari’s plan, describing extension of IG Idris’s tenure as an
opportunity for the president to perpetrate his rigging plan for 2019.
Ologbondiyan made this objection while speaking with
newsmen, saying that the party was right now aware that the IG had surrounded
all the state commissioners of police with his own men, who would be following
them to any strategic meeting and spying for him.
Ologbondiyan spoke in the company of spokesperson,
Presidential Campaign Council of PDP, Umar Sani, saying that even from President
Buhari’s body language, it was quite clear that he was not ready to give
Nigeria free and fair elections, come 2019.
He said: “We reject in totality the extension of tenure of
the Inspector-General for another six months. We are aware that doing so the
president wants to perpetrate his rigging plan for 2019 election.
“Our party is also aware that the IG has surrounded the
commissioners of police with his own men who would be following them to a
strategic meeting, any meetings and be spying for him. We want to appeal to the
Inspector- General of Police to insulate the police from politics.
President Buhari is totally against free and fair elections
in the country as his refusal to sign the amended Electoral Act had shown, even
as he said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) which promised
not to use Incident Form, which allowed for rigging in past polls, was coming
out with a format not quite different from one it was trying to discard.
“So the position of PDP is that INEC has a situation room.
INEC must allow EU and all other international, as well as local observers,
have access to the situation rooms to guarantee free and fair elections,” the
party spokesperson said, noting that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)
was able to rig the recently concluded Osun governorship poll due to its
(commission) refusal to allow election observers to the situation room.”
He, however, assured that the PDP was poised to burst all
the rigging plans by the APC in the coming polls, saying that despite all
barriers put in place, the party was able to let the world know it won the last
Osun poll, which was thereafter manipulated.
Ologbondiyan appealed to Nigerians not to allow themselves
to be scared by the instruments of government, saying they should all come out
on election days, exercise their right and also ensure that they protected
their votes from being stolen.
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