The Coalition of United Political
Parties (CUPP) says there is an alleged plot by the All Progressives Congress
(APC) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the Osun
rerun election.
INEC had declared the
governorship election held Saturday inconclusive and subsequently fixed
Thursday for a rerun.
The rerun will take place across
seven polling units in four local government areas (LGAs) of the state.
CUPP, in a statement issued on
Monday by Ikenga Ugochinyere, its spokesman, said INEC has refused to make
public the list of people with permanent voter cards in the affected LGAs
because it plans to “to announce a fictitious figure of uncollected” PVCs.
This coalition says the endgame
of the plot is to release the PVCs to “imported voters”.
“The attention of the CUPP has
been drawn to credible intelligence showing a new conspiracy by some national
officers of Inec to tamper and manipulate the Osun guber rerun with the ongoing
release of uncollected PVC to the desperate APC government in Osun to use
imported voters to vote at the rerun,” the statement read.
“We wish to alert the public that
INEC in furtherance of this move being coordinated by an INEC senior officer
from South West has refused to release the official list of people who have
collected PVC’s at the 7 polling units where election is to be held. We have it
on good authority that less than 1000 registered voters have collected PVC’s
out of the 3,498.
“This means that less than 1000
persons are to participate in the actual voting. We demand that INEC
immediately release this list. The delay is a calculated plot to announce a
fictitious figure of uncollected PVC to enable APC use those PVC to share to
thugs imported from Lagos into Osun.
“The plot includes a move to use
incidence form to vote knowing that the finger prints of those with the
hijacked uncollected PVC can’t be read by the Smart Card Reader.”
The coalition called on Mahood
Yakubu, INEC chairman, to caution the APC against tampering with the electoral
process.
“We wish to call on Yakubu
Mahmood to take charge of what is left of INEC and avoid some desperate APC
compromised officers from igniting a huge crisis like the wild wild west that
will lead to collapse of our constitutional governance,” the statement read.
“Indeed the votes of Osun people
will count. The National Secretariat of the CUPP will for the first time practically
show the strength of the coalition by moving in massively to Osun to rally
candidates and supporters of all political parties in the coalition to
massively vote for Senator Ademola Adeleke of the PDP to emerge as the governor
of Osun State on Thursday.
“The APC cannot be allowed in its
trademark style to steal another victory from the Nigerian people. Their days
are numbered; they know it and their desperation cannot stop it. On Thursday,
INEC will have no options but to declare the PDP candidate, a member of this
coalition as the duly elected governor of Osun State.
“We call on the Commission not to
succumb to the shenanigans of the APC as the good people of Osun will protect
their votes, their future and their destiny on Thursday. Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere
Chairman APP Spokesman CUPP.”
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