The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday declared that it was ready to “confront the Buhari-controlled security forces and All Progressives Congress (APC) thugs, at all levels”.
Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP National Publicity Secretary, stated this in statement.
Recall that the PDP had alerted the nation and the international community of the series of alleged designs by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC government to rig the February 16 Presidential election.
The spokesman noted that Nigerians across-the-board were ready to vote Atiku Abubakar, as the next President of the country.
The statement reads: “The PDP handed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) a 48-hour ultimatum to make public the list of all officials and ad-hoc staff that will play any form of role in the February 16 Presidential election at all levels, for verification by stakeholders.
“That demand was predicated on our findings that the INEC leadership in deferring to directives by Buhari Presidency and the APC had collected lists of APC loyalists from APC state governors and candidates, across the federation to serve as electoral officials, including ad-hoc staff and returning officers at the polling units.
“You will recall that upon our demand the APC openly directed INEC to ignore the PDP and go ahead with its compromised list. Shockingly INEC leadership appeared to have obeyed the APC ostensibly because of threats by the party’s to give its leadership the “Onnoghen treatment” if it fails to comply.
“The world is already aware of how INEC has continued to allow the foisting of a relation of President Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs. Amina Zakari, as the head of the INEC collation center, where she is being positioned to alter results and allocate figures to President Buhari and the APC, in spite of the public outrage against such.
“This is in addition to how the Buhari Presidency has been importing mercenaries from Chad and Niger Republic to vote for President Buhari and to unleash violence in our country upon his eventual defeat.
“We had also alerted of plots to manipulate the smart card readers so as to substitute biometric accreditation with manual verification and pave way for mass rigging and allocation of fictitious votes for President Buhari.”
