INEC Hoarding Election Result Sheets, PDP Alleges

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday raised the alarm
that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was
hoarding the presidential and senatorial elections result sheets
for undisclosed reasons.

In a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja yesterday by
its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, the party
also alleged that its agents were being denied the INEC
accreditation and identification cards, ostensibly to shut them out
of the election monitoring process and allow the All Progressives
Congress (APC) a field day to manipulate the process.

It stated that its monitoring and intelligence showed that INEC
has been distributing sensitive election materials in most states
of the federation without the Presidential and Senatorial elections
results sheets.

According to it, “the development is already heightening tension
and suspicion of an underhand method by the commission to open the
elections for manipulations and allow the APC to enter fictitious
results for onward transmission to collation centres.

” Intelligence available to us indicate that this is part of the
plot for which President Muhammadu Buhari’s relation by marriage,
Mrs Amina Zakari, has been retained as the head of the INEC
collation centre”.

The Party, therefore, cautioned INEC to show its impartiality by
immediately releasing the Presidential and senatorial elections
result sheet as well as the accreditation cards, saying that “any
further delay will be a clear recipe for crisis as Nigerians are
already highly agitated over the matter”.

“INEC should note that Nigerians are very anxious about this
election and any action that, in any way, portrays or tends to
portray the process as being manipulated is capable of triggering a
crisis of unprecedented proportion in our country”, it
declared.