Bayelsa : APC Chieftain Urges Police, SSS to Arrest Fraudulent INEC Staff

Bayelsa : APC Chieftain Urges Police, SSS to Arrest Fraudulent INEC Staff
04 Dec 2015

 Olakiitan Victor in Ado Ekiti
 Following the alleged complicity of some staff of the  Independent National Electoral Commission in the manipulations of the 2015 Rivers and Akwa Ibom State Governorship polls,  a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State, Mr. Segun Osinkolu, has advised INEC to be neutral during the Saturday’s governorship poll in Bayelsa State.

 Osinkolu said it constitutes a great threat to the growth of democracy and national peace for those saddled with the statutory responsibility of conducting elections and collate the people’s will to freely and willingly perpetrated electoral fraud  in favour of a certain political party.

 The APC chieftain added that Prof. Mahmood Yakubu-led INEC should not only display unwavering patriotism to the country, but must be seen to be neutral in every election for Nigerians, electorate in particular,  to have implicit confidence in the commission.
Osinkolu , who spoke in Ado Ekiti yesterday, said the alleged  of manipulations of the polls in the two PDP-controlled states  had further been amplified  and confirmed by the court’s nullifications of Governors Nyesom Wike and  Udom Emmanuel’s elections.
Osinkolu noted that the security agencies must monitor all the INEC staff to forestall any manipulation as witnessed in those states during the last general election.
He warned the commission to guard against a repeat of such sordid scenario in Bayelsa, threatening that APC won’t expect anything less
 than a “transparent, free and fair election that represents the true and collective wish of the Bayelsans.

“Several evidence were brought before the election petition tribunals that tried the petitions  filed by APC governorship candidates in Rivers and Akwa Ibom, Hon. Dakuku Peterside and  Mr. Umana Umana respectively to the effects that INEC top functionaries were involved in manipulations of figures.
“The fact that elections in those states had been annulled  by competent courts of law were suffice for us to conclude that there are
 bad and highly compromised INEC staff in those two states. And the security agencies must beam their searchlights on them.
“I want to put on record that PDP having the erroneous impression that the SouthSouth States with the exception of Edo,  are their natural habitats and strongholds no longer hold water, because APC is now a darling party at the centre and President Muhammadu Buhari’s magnetic force is drawing everybody to APC.
“Before the 2015 general election, virtually all the States in the North Central with the exception of Kwara,  were being controlled by PDP. But today, the APC is controlling everywhere. The only one left for PDP, Kogi State has just been won by APC. So, I am confident that APC can win election in Bayelsa.
“I want to advise the commission and its  ad hoc staff to see Saturday’s elections as a veritable avenue to redeem their  image and atone for their sins.
“They should see this election as a national assignment and their loyalty should be to the constitution they swore to protect,  rather
 than to any money bag or highest bidder,  who is desperate to win election,” Osinkolu stated.

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