Press Statement
Loading ...The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) informs Nigerians that the leadership
of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), led by Prof.
Mahmood Yakubu, has refused to obey the March 6, 2019 ruling of the
Appeal Court, directing it to allow our party and the people’s
candidate, Atiku Abubakar, access to inspect the documents and materials
used in the rigged February 23, 2019 Presidential election.
This is a deliberate and wicked ploy by INEC, acting in cahoots with the
All Progressives Congress (APC), to frustrate the people-backed resolve
by Atiku Abubakar and the PDP to timeously file and mention our petition
at the Presidential election Tribunal, and by so doing, ambush the case.
It is imperative to inform Nigerians that upon obtaining the lawful
order of the Court, directing INEC to forthwith, avail Atiku Abubakar
and the PDP copies of all the documents and other materials used for the
Presidential election, our legal team wrote to the INEC Chairman on the
11th and 12th of March 2019 respectively, causing the Order to be served
on INEC and requesting access to the said documents and materials.
Despite being served with the Order and several follow-ups, the
leadership of INEC has refused to grant the PDP and Atiku Abubakar
access to the materials and documents, notwithstanding the urgency of
the matter.
This action by the leadership of INEC has further exposed that it has
been heavily compromised by the Buhari Presidency to rig the February
23, 2019 Presidential election and to frustrate the quest by Nigerians
to reclaim the mandate from President Muhammadu Buhari and save the
nation from the crisis of an illegitimate government.
The leadership of INEC and the APC are seeking to frustrate our court
option, seeing that the documents and materials will expressly show that
Atiku Abubakar clearly won the election by the votes directly delivered
at the polling units across the country as well as expose how the
commission and the Buhari Presidency manipulated the results for
President Buhari.
The PDP cautions the INEC to note that Nigerians are now aware of its
manipulative tendencies and that any further delay in granting access to
the materials might attract public odium.
INEC should therefore end its unpatriotic partisan shenanigans with the
APC and immediately obey the Court of Appeal and grant the PDP and Atiku
Abubakar access to the documents and materials and free itself from
unholy entanglement with the APC against Nigerians.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
And
Director, Media & Publicity
PDP Presidential Campaign Organization
