Polls rigging: Provide evidence to prove your allegations, INEC tells PDP

Polls rigging: Provide evidence to prove your allegations, INEC tells PDP

The Chief Press Secretary to INEC chairman, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, has dismissed the allegations that it was plotting to compromise the electoral guidelines to pave way for the alteration of 2019 general elections results.

The agency said this in response to an allegation by the Peoples Democratic Party that INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, was under intensive pressure to drop from its guidelines the display of results at the polling units as well as the electronic transmission of polled figures to INEC server.

Oyekanmi urged the PDP to provide the evidence in its possession to prove the allegations.

“Otherwise, the PDP should cure itself of this recurring hallucination which I am sure Nigerians no longer buy.

“Certainly, INEC is not into the rigging business,’’ Oyekanmi said.

Earlier, the Peoples Democratic Party had advised the Independent National Electoral Commission to distance itself from an alleged plot to compromise the Electoral Guidelines and pave the way for the alteration of the forthcoming general elections results.

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The Director, Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, gave the advice at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja.

Ologbondiyan alleged that Nigerians were already aware that the Commission’s Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, was under pressure to drop from its guidelines the display of results at the polling units as well as the electronic transmission of polled figures to INEC server.

He said that the display of results at the polling units ensured that results posted at all levels remained those originally announced at the various polling units, while the electronic transmission to INEC server ensured that the results from the polling centres were not tampered with.

“Prof. Yakubu must not succumb to the pressure of the Buhari Presidency, because doing so will definitely set him on a collision course with Nigerians,’’ Ologbondiyan said (NAN)


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