The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) on Tuesday released the letter of protest its National Chairman, Uche
Secondus, submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In the letter, PDP insisted that the presidential election was manipulated in
favour of the ruling party.
The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared President Muhammadu Buhari of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) winner, having polled 15,191,847 votes as against
PDP’s Atiku Abubakar’s 11,262,978 votes with a victory margin of 3,928,869
votes
On Tuesday, the PDP and Atiku
filed a case against Buhari’s victory at the Presidential Election Tribunal in
Abuja.
The PDP letter to INEC below:
PDP/DOM/INEC/19-004
The Chairman
Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC)
Zambezi Crescent
Maitama District
Abuja, FCT.
Dear Sir,
CASES OF INFRACTIONS AND
DELIBERATE VIOLATIONS OF THE ELECTORAL LAW AND GUIDELINES
We want to place on records and
bring to your attention the very obvious and noticeable infractions and
violations of the Electoral Law and the Regulations/Guidelines regulating the
2019 general elections which have very negative implications on the credibility,
transparency and integrity of the entire electoral processes particularly the
just concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections.
This has become imperative as we
approach the Gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections billed for Saturday,
March 9,2019.
These infractions and deliberate
violations include but not limited to the following:
1. The non-usage or selective
enforcement of the Smart Card Reader (SCR) machines across the country. We
observed with regrets that the usage of the SCR machines were enforced
strategically in the South-South, South-East and the North-Central zones of the
country which are essentially PDP strongholds. This is radically different from
what transpired in the North-West, North-East and the South-West which were
estimated as the APC strongholds. This is quite contrary to the provisions of
Paragraph 10(a) & (b) of the Regulations and Guidelines governing the 2019
General Elections and all the assurances you, Prof. Yakub Mahmood, frequently
gave up to the last hours before the elections.
2. The deliberate non-deployment
of the Electronic Collation System (E-Collation) for the elections results from
the units, through the ward centers to the Presidential Collation Center in
Abuja as provided for in the 2019 Electoral Regulations and Guidelines made by
you, and as contained in your several official Press Statements is very
suspect. This is more so when you have never bothered to explain to Nigerians
the justification for this sudden official somersault on such a critical
component of the electoral process especially with all the tax payer’s money
spent to install the facilities.
3. The unconstitutional
deployment of the armed forces especially soldiers and police for the
illegitimate purposes to harassing, intimidating, suppressing of leaders of the
PDP and suppression of voters in PDP strongholds across the country which are
very well known to you. The use of these same security agents by the government
to harass and intimidate Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) and certain
INEC’s National Commissioners for the sake of forcing them to declare votes for
the APC’s candidates throughout the country have been officially or otherwise
brought to your knowledge by the affected officers who even threatened to
resign from their positions, yet you have decided to keep mute over it in a way
portraying outright conspiracy and collusion of yourself and the commission
with the APC government perpetrators.
4. We also want to bring to your
knowledge that most of the collation centers in the country were cordoned off
by officers and men of the armed forces who chased away accredited agents and
or candidates of our party, the PDP, from such centers while the results of the
elections from the units were being manipulated, mutilated and altered to suite
the dictates and criminal desires of the APC led government. These results that
were tampered with were accepted by you and your commission and announced as
the results of the elections.
5. In places like Lagos, Rivers,
Nassarawa, Abia, Benue, Plateau, Ondo, Osun States el al, results of duly
conducted elections were illegally canceled especially in the PDP dominated
areas to reduce the margin of victory in those states in Favour of APC
candidates. Is it not surprising to you that Lagos state with over six million
voters can only return less than one million votes? This was the case in
virtually all PDP dominated states where voter’s suppression was deployed as a
major strategy by you and the APC government in active collaboration of some of
your unscrupulous RECs and staffers.
6. We are sure that till date the
commission does not know the number of polling units where elections were
cancelled and the total number of registered voters at such polling units. Yet
you hurriedly announced the results of the elections especially the
Presidential election only to come up with a Press Statement that supplementary
elections will be conducted on March 9, 2019 along with the Gubernatorial and
House of Assembly Elections. This to say the least is a major dent on the
credibility and image of the commission.
7. Under your watch as Chairman
of INEC for the first time in our nation’s history, the election materials of
all categories; sensitive and non-sensitive, were contracted to be printed by a
person who is not just a card-carrying member of a political party; the APC but
also a Senatorial Candidate of the party in Niger State. Arising from this,
these sensitive materials were seen in several wrong and unauthorized hands and
places before and during the elections. Till this moment your commission has
not raised any concerns or set up any enquiry to uncover the immediate or
remote causes of such criminal and unconstitutional bastardization of the
electoral process.
We have taken time to chronicle
the above fundamental deliberate violations and infractions of the Electoral
Law, Regulations and Guidelines and all known canons of electoral best
practices by your Commission in obvious complicity and collaboration with APC
and security agencies to rig the elections and rob our party of victory.
We want to remind you that as we
inch towards Saturday, March 9, 2019 elections, you must do everything to right
these grave anomalies to save yourself and the commission from this woeful
embarrassment as you may go down in history as the worst Chairman of INEC in
our history.
Accept our regards.
Prince Uche Secondus
National Chairman
Sen. Ibrahim Umaru Tsauri
National Secretary
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