The Peoples Democratic Party
Presidential Campaign Organization, PPCO, on Thursday accused President
Muhammadu Buhari of plotting to rig the 2019 election “with illegal polling
centers from Chad and Niger”.
PDP made the allegation while
condemning the alleged plot by the Independent National Electoral Commission,
INEC, and the “Buhari Presidency to create illegal polling centers in Chad and
Niger Republic.”
PPCO described the alleged plot
by “INEC and President Buhari to secretly create polling centers outside the
shores of our country, in total violation of the 1999 Constitution (as
amended), as inexcusably criminal and exposes part of the plot to corrupt our
electoral system and massively rig for President Buhari.”
In a statement signed by PDP’s
spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PPCO said both “President Buhari, INEC and
all Nigerians know that there are no provisions for Diaspora voting under our
system. By the extant laws guiding elections in Nigeria, it is very clear who
is eligible to vote, as well as the centers statutorily designated for
elections. There is no provision for any special arrangement whatsoever.
“It is therefore reprehensible
that President Buhari, in his desperation to rig the elections, is now trying
to hide under the guise of making special provision for Internally Displaced
Persons IDPs, outside the country, to illegally create rigging centers outside
our country and import contrived figures into the election results.
“This clandestine arrangement
further validates the alarm earlier raised by the PDP, in April this year, of
INEC’s plot to secretly create 30,000 illegal polling centers in some remote
areas, through which they plan to allocate millions of votes to President
Buhari and the APC.
“Nigerians can now see that the
APC and its candidate are not committed to peaceful, credible, free and fair
election. Having realized that there is no way he can win in a peaceful and
credible election, Mr. President is now seeking means to enmesh the 2019
elections in a constitutional crisis, public confusion and trigger an imminent
violence that is capable of derailing our entire democratic process.
“Moreover, by seeking to open
polling units outside the country, the Buhari administration has now agreed
that it does not have full control of Nigerian territory and cannot provide
security for Nigerians to freely participate in the elections.
“If President Buhari is in any
way inclined towards diaspora voting, he should send an appropriate bill to the
National Assembly for approval to accommodate not only Nigerians in Chad and
Niger Republic, but also those in other sub-Sahara countries as well as Europe,
America and other parts of the world, who have been agitating for Diaspora
voting.
“We caution the Buhari Presidency
and INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, not to set our country on fire by
engaging in provocative actions in a desperation to rig 2019 Presidential
election for President Buhari.”
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