We will resist your conspiracy with APC, PDP tells INEC
(Nigeria) The Chairman, Rivers State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr Felix Obuah, has said that he received the renewed statement by the Independent Electoral Commission, INEC, through the Resident Commissioner in Rivers State, Mr. Aniedi Ikoiwak, reiterating the Commission’s position to declare results of the cancelled March 19, 2016 legislative elections in Tai LGA, in disobedience of a subsisting court order, with grave disappointment and suspicion of grand conspiracy between it and the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Obuah in a statement in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, said that
he believed that this action had further exposed the Commission’s compromised
stance and confirmed an undisputable pact between some of its officials in the state
and in Abuja, and candidates of the APC, who are afraid of contesting a free,
fair and peaceful election in the state.
He said, “It is suspicious hearing that the same INEC that
cancelled elections in eight local government areas, including Tai LGA, and
which Mr. Ikiowak on September 20, admitted that “the issue of suspension, like
it affected other areas, was done in the course of elections,” and as earlier
explained, on grounds of electoral fraud and violence, has now, after six
months, made a u-turn, and apparently, succumbing to APC’s pressure and
influence to declare results of elections that never took place.
The PDP urged INEC to stop blowing hot and cold, saying
rather than take actions to redeem its already battered image as result of
series of inconclusive or postponed elections under the current administration,
the Commission, through the like of Zakari Mohammed and Aniedi Ikiowak, was
still conducting itself in the most undignified manner to prove it remains an
unrepentant and have its hands soiled by the desperation of the APC and its
candidates, Mr. Magnus Abe and Barry Mpigi.
“It is important we remind Mr. Ikiowak, who said that the
decision of the Commission to cancel the said elections did not get to the EOs,
and so they could not communicate same to those who were in the field, that the
EOs he is referring to, after receiving the suspension order, announced the
decision to stakeholders and potential voters at their various duty posts, and
it was pursuant to this order that the electoral process in the LGA was
discontinued.
“Again, how can Ikiowak solicit confidence of the people in
an institution that has derailed and planning to rob the people of their
mandates. It is only an institution that
is upright and strongly upholds the tenets of democracy, including the conduct
of a participatory election and declaration of results that truly represent the
popular view of the masses that can enjoy such confidence as demanded by the Rivers
REC, Mr. Ikiowak.
“One thing that is clear to us is the fact that Mr. Ikiowak
and his INEC are only testing the waters, but should be aware of the
implications of declaring fake results and conniving with desperate politicians
to destroy the nation’s democracy and cause anarchy in the land.
“We therefore, urge INEC to retrace its steps, impress on
some of its staff and officials, including Zakari Mohammed and Aniedi Ikiowak,
to discontinue the compromise and conspiracy with the APC, which has today put the
Commission in bad light.
“We will not allow this rape of democracy and abuse of
people’s right to succeed,” Obuah maintained.
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