National chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiohole has asked the chairman of the Independent National Election Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu to investigate state commissioners of the Commission over allegation making the round that they (the commissioners have been bribed with one million US Dollars to compromise the postponed elections.
Speaking at an emergency meeting of the APC Stakeholders at the party’s headquarters in Abuja today, Monday, Oshiomhole asked the INEC chairman “to move around state commissioners who have been compromised and become institutionalized and which may compromise the outcome of the results.”
The party chairman, who described as rubbish, INEC’s excuse about Nigeria’s population and challenges of moving materials around, insisted that INEC knew that the election was not going to hold and leaked the information to the main opposition party, adding that all early warning indicators showed that INEC had something up it sleeves.
He alleged that INEC is working with anti-democratic elements to frustrate free and fair elections.
Oshiomhole argued that INEC has no right to stop campaigns, insisting that voters need to be reminded as this might result in low voters turn out. He hinted that they are ready to go to court.
He made it clear that his party is going to write to INEC to explain if the card readers have been reconfigured and what is the guarantee that it would not fail, and why is it deploying only 4,000 card readers, instead of expected 176,000 card readers, with spares.
Oshimhole said that APC would not want staggered elections but elections that are conducted simultaneously across all pulling units.
He said that INEC needs to assure Nigerians that the samples of sensitive materials already in circulation will not compromise the process.
“We must not allow this shock affect our voters. We need to renew campaign and reassure the voters especially APC voters.”
The APC boss called on President Buhari to ensure that those who were involve in what he called ‘national sabotage’ are pushed, according to the rule of law.
