Adams Oshiomhole, national
chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) believes everything the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) says.
Speaking at a press briefing in
Abuja, on Wednesday, Oshiomhole alleged that the INEC was working to the
advantage of the PDP, adding that the commission has been very unfair to the
ruling party.
While responding to questions on
alleged collusion between the INEC and President Muhammadu Buhari, the APC
chairman alleged that two resident electoral commissioners in the south-south
have been campaigning with the PDP.
“If anything, this INEC has been
very unfair to the APC. But we just discovered that we have a responsibility.
The fact that we are a governing party imposes on us a certain level of code
that you can’t be seen to rubbish every institution because if we rubbish
everything, it would mean that we don’t want election. INEC believe everything
the PDP says,” he said.
“As we speak, there are two
resident electoral commissioners who are virtually campaigning line by line
with the PDP in the south south. INEC, without giving us any explanation and
without any concrete evidence went ahead to say we can’t field candidates in
Zamfara, thereby seeking to award, without any context, a nullified democracy
in Zamfara state.
“Is that the way your friends
behave if they are your friends? INEC is working more for the PDP, based on
evidence I can show. How can they explain that a court of competent
jurisdiction gave orders in Zamfara to say this candidate is eligible to
contest election and another high court in Abuja also gave a verdict saying APC
did not conclude its primaries but did not give order to INEC?
“There is no order issued by the
federal high court in Abuja. The court of appeal made a pronouncement on this
matter today that there was no order from the court in Abuja, but that there
was a concrete order from a Zamfara high court which upheld the primaries that
was conducted in Zamfara.
“The INEC chairman has said that
when there are two court orders, they will adopt the last judgement. In Zamfara
state, the Abuja judgement came first and the Zamfara judgment came last even
though it is the same say.”
He accused the electoral body of
not sticking to its words on its decision regarding the Zamfara APC legal
tussle.
He said: “More as INEC has said
they will always obey the last judgement when it came to the Zamfara issue,
they changed the goal post. As media, you have to be careful. When you say
people alleged there were meetings and can’t even cite any, it is a disservice.
We have been at the receiving end of abuses.
“Do you remember the confession
of the former deputy senate president who, on national television and on social
media where anything is possible, narrated how President Obasanjo used him and
Atiku to rig election, how they wrote results, how they collude with INEC. This
same Atiku was in office when Mantu was doing those things.
“So, if PDP functionaries have
enumerated how they use to rig election, how can in all fairness, these point
to President Muhammadu Buhari?”
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