The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked security
agencies to protect the facilities and equipment of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the elections.
In a statement issued on Monday, Debo Ologunagba, PDP
spokesperson, alleged that there is a plot by some members of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) to attack some equipment of INEC, including the
Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).
The opposition party claimed that the attack is being
orchestrated to “frustrate” INEC’s ability to conduct the elections.
“Ahead of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly
elections, the PDP charges security agencies to beef up security around the
offices and facilities of INEC from any attacks by the sinking APC,” the
statement reads.
“The PDP’s position
is coming against the background of apprehensions in the public space of
alleged plots by certain APC interests to launch a coordinated attack on INEC
offices and facilities in various parts of the country to destroy the
Commission’s BVAS machines to cripple INEC’s ability to conduct the elections.
“Credible information available to our Party indicates that
the said APC interests which are bent on scuttling the elections to avoid a
humiliating defeat are allegedly mobilizing thugs to launch fresh attacks on
INEC offices and its facilities where BVAS machines are located.
“Some prominent APC leaders including certain APC governors,
having failed in their designs to have the elections postponed and having also
been resisted in their plot to use their orchestrated cash scarcity to
destabilize the nation, are now allegedly plotting to cripple INEC’s ability to
conduct the elections by destroying the BVAS machines.
“These APC leaders
and their apologists have evidently revealed themselves as clear and present
threat not only to the electoral process but also to our corporate existence as
a nation and must be resisted by all.
“The PDP, therefore, charges the security agencies to take
all necessary steps to provide adequate protection for INEC facilities, equipment
and personnel before, during and after the elections.”
The PDP asked President Muhammadu Buhari “to put all
measures in place for free, fair, transparent and credible elections in keeping
with his assurances to Nigerians and the international community”.
“The APC and the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign must accept the
fact that Nigerians will never be deterred from their resolve to vote in the
Presidential Candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, to rebuild our nation from
the disastrous misrule of the APC,” the PDP added.
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