The All Progressives Congress (APC) has rejected the announcement byINEC that it will hold a supplementary election after declaring lastSaturday’s governorship poll in Anambra inconclusive, insisting thatonly the total cancellation of the grossly-tainted andwidely-manipulated election will be acceptable.In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its Interim NationalPublicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also called onINEC to come clear on how the election was sabotaged from within theelectoral commission itself, with a view to establishing howentrenched the forces of evil within the commission are and also toavert a looming national disaster into which an infiltrated,incompetent and conniving INEC can plunge Nigeria.
APC said it is now apparent that INEC is indeed not taking seriouslythe opinions of Anambra residents as well as local and foreignobservers that most of the registered voters in the state werewillfully disenfranchised on Saturday.”First, the electoral commission proposed make-up election in only 65polling units in Obosi before scaling things up to a supplementaryelection ‘in those areas where election was cancelled’. But we say,without equivocating, that a total cancellation of the election andthe organization of a fresh poll, under the supervision of a credibleResident Electoral Commissioner, will be acceptable to our party,” itsaid.The party also challenged INEC to quickly carry out an internalinvestigation to determine the extent to which Saturday’s election wassabotaged and compromised to the embarrassment of the nation, sayingwhat occurred on Saturday may actually be treasonable.
“It is not enough for INEC’s detached Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega,to tell the nation that an INEC official sabotaged theelection in a certain part of the state, he must tell the nation whothis fellow is, who he/she is working for, what is the extentof the damage he/she has done to this and previous elections, andwhether or not he/she has access to the commission’sdatabase of voters’ register, which was apparently tampered with forSaturday’s election.”Prof. Jega must also tell Nigerians why 16 Electoral Commissioners,who migrated to Anambra days before the electionostensibly to supervise things, could not ensure the success of anelection in a single state, when even a polling unit behindthe INEC office in Awka did not get voting materials till after 9 amon election day,” it said.Meanwhile, the APC has accused the PDP of being an accessory to theshameful electoral malfeasance in Anambra lastSaturday, going by the statement credited to the discombobulated partythat the election was free and fair.”In its inordinate ambition to humiliate our party at all costs, thePDP has ended up humiliating itself and embarrassing the nation.
Orhow else does one describe a bizarre situation in which a party willdescribed as free and fair an election in which its own candidate andhis family could not find their names in the voters’ register? Thejoke is indeed on the PDP!”It is now clear who the PDP is working for, and that the party hasno qualms about sacrificing its own candidate and disgracing thenation as long as it will achieve its aim.
