The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, Friday frowned at the performance of the National Peace Committee, NPC,
saying the committee was powerless under President Muhammadu Buhari’s alleged
desperate government.
It also said such committee will
only function within an ambit of what the sitting government desires.
PDP spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan
said this when grilled on the position of the peace committee under the
chairmanship of Gen. Abdullsalam Abubakar, over the persistent electoral
controversies, while briefing newsmen in Abuja.
“If a sitting government refuses
to partner with the peace committee, and chose to act against the rule, the
peace committee has no power to enforce the sitting government which is in
leadership position to act in conjunction with their own principles.
“So, I’m not surprised that the
peace committee has somewhat found itself in the kind of environment it is in.
“It is a different environment
from what we had under President Goodluck Jonathan in 2014 and 2015. We are
dealing with people who have no respect for rules.
“We are dealing with people who
are prepared to manoeuvre their ways just to be in government.”
Ologbondiyan also cautioned the
leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, under the
chairmanship of Yakubu Mahmood against alleged attempts to tamper with and
further cancel already tallied and declared results in 14 more local government
areas in the Bauchi governorship election.
He warned that such alleged
unlawful alterations would attract dire consequences.
The affected states are: Sokoto,
Bauchi, Adamawa, Benue, Kano and Plateau states.
In his words, “The PDP warns that
with the charged atmosphere in Bauchi state and the level of awareness attained
by the people of the state, any attempt by anybody to touch the already
announced results will attract serious consequences.
“The PDP members and supporters
have rallied themselves ready for a firm resistance.
“Our party already have full
information of plots by certain known top ranking officials of INEC, who have
been bribed with huge sums of money by the All Progressives Congress (APC), to
widen the scope of result cancellation beyond Tafawa Balewa to 14 more Local
Government Areas and hike the number of cancelled votes from 70,000 to 184,
555.
“To achieve this, INEC has been
instructed by the APC to cancel already declared results in 230 polling units
in 15 LGAs, in the state, cause confusion and pave the way for the APC to
manipulate the March 23 Supplementary elections.
“Seeing that our party, the PDP,
and our candidate, Senator Bala Mohammed, are inevitably coasting to victory,
being that Tafawa Balewa is home to the PDP, the APC is instructing INEC to
cancel elections in more local governments where it plans to manipulate the
processes and allocate fictitious results for the APC at the March 23 polls.
“The PDP states that such a
wicked plot cannot stand, as the people of Bauchi state have fully rallied
themselves for a firm resistance.
“Our party is already in
possession of a leaked document from the Bauchi INEC office, which exposed
details of this wicked plot against the people of Bauchi state.”
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