INEC: Onochie’s Rejection Has Saved Nigeria’s Electoral System From Ruinous Pollution – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the Senate’s
rejection of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of his aide,
Lauretta Onochie, as a national commissioner in the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC), as triumph of Nigerian people
over the barefaced attempt to corrupt and hijack the electoral
commission ahead of 2023 elections.

PDP in a statement said Onochie’s rejection has saved the nation
from very serious crisis as well as salvaged INEC and the entire
electoral process from a ruinous pollution that would have led to
the collapse of democratic order.

The party’s national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan,
said, “Onochie’s vexatious nomination, in total affront to
paragraph 14 of the 3rd schedule of the 1999 Constitution (as
amended), was a very dangerous machination by the Buhari-led APC
Presidency against our electoral process, in the attempt to subvert
the will of the people in the 2023 elections.

“The APC, in spite of its shenanigans, is aware that it will
have difficulties winning election at any level in a free, fair and
credible election and as such it is determined to rig every process
ahead of the 2023 elections.

“Our party, therefore, commends Nigerians including civil
society organizations, the media as well as other political
parties, for joining forces with the PDP in fighting for the
sanctity of our electoral process by resisting Onochie’s
nomination.

“The stiff resistance displayed by Nigerians across board, in
repelling this vicious attempt to hijack and pollute the electoral
commission, underscores their collective and unwavering
determination to resist and kick out the APC in 2023, despite its
shenanigans.”

PDP, therefore, urged Nigerians not to rest on their oars but to
continue in the spirit of fighting for democracy, particularly in
further resisting the attempt to alter the Electoral Act, 2010 to
prohibit direct electronic transmission of election results from
polling units.

“It is clear that the APC is pushing for the prohibition of
electronic transmission of results because it seeks to use its
usual malpractices alteration of figures, switching of results as
well as disappearance of ballot materials while on transit to
collation centers to, again, subvert the will of the people and
manipulate its hold on power in 2023.

“Our party, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Nigerian
people, will use every means available and permissible under our
laws to ensure that such provision that seeks to institutionalize
and endorse rigging is not allowed to pass,” he added.

PDP, however, counseled APC to read the handwriting on the wall
and know that Nigerians are ready and waiting to resist them at any
turn ahead of the 2023 election.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the Senate’s
rejection of President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of his aide,
Lauretta Onochie, as a national commissioner in the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC), as triumph of Nigerian people
over the barefaced attempt to corrupt and hijack the electoral
commission ahead of 2023 elections.

PDP in a statement said Onochie’s rejection has saved the nation
from very serious crisis as well as salvaged INEC and the entire
electoral process from a ruinous pollution that would have led to
the collapse of democratic order.

The party’s national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan,
said, “Onochie’s vexatious nomination, in total affront to
paragraph 14 of the 3rd schedule of the 1999 Constitution (as
amended), was a very dangerous machination by the Buhari-led APC
Presidency against our electoral process, in the attempt to subvert
the will of the people in the 2023 elections.

“The APC, in spite of its shenanigans, is aware that it will
have difficulties winning election at any level in a free, fair and
credible election and as such it is determined to rig every process
ahead of the 2023 elections.

“Our party, therefore, commends Nigerians including civil
society organizations, the media as well as other political
parties, for joining forces with the PDP in fighting for the
sanctity of our electoral process by resisting Onochie’s
nomination.

“The stiff resistance displayed by Nigerians across board, in
repelling this vicious attempt to hijack and pollute the electoral
commission, underscores their collective and unwavering
determination to resist and kick out the APC in 2023, despite its
shenanigans.”

PDP, therefore, urged Nigerians not to rest on their oars but to
continue in the spirit of fighting for democracy, particularly in
further resisting the attempt to alter the Electoral Act, 2010 to
prohibit direct electronic transmission of election results from
polling units.

“It is clear that the APC is pushing for the prohibition of
electronic transmission of results because it seeks to use its
usual malpractices alteration of figures, switching of results as
well as disappearance of ballot materials while on transit to
collation centers to, again, subvert the will of the people and
manipulate its hold on power in 2023.

“Our party, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Nigerian
people, will use every means available and permissible under our
laws to ensure that such provision that seeks to institutionalize
and endorse rigging is not allowed to pass,” he added.

PDP, however, counseled APC to read the handwriting on the wall
and know that Nigerians are ready and waiting to resist them at any
turn ahead of the 2023 election.