PDP accuses APC, presidency of plot to rig in Kano, Lagos, 15 others

The PDP has accused the ruling APC and the presidency of arm-twisting security agencies and plotting to replace Electoral Officers (EOs) in “some critical states” with APC agents to allegedly rig Saturday’s presidential election.

The Director Media and Publicity of the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, told newsmen, yesterday in Abuja, that INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu had allegedly succumbed to pressure to replace electoral officers in PDP strongholds in order to rig the election in favour of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The states, according to Mr. Ologbondiyan are: Kano, Kaduna, Rivers, Bauchi, Akwa-Ibom, Zamfara, Benue, Sokoto, Lagos, Plateau, Taraba, Borno, Adamawa, Kogi, Delta and Ebonyi.

“At a meeting held in Buhari Presidency/APC situation room in the Presidential Villa last night (Tuesday) where Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, the Managing Director of Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, Secretary to Government of the Federation, Mustapha Boss, among others, were in attendance, Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) were directed to issue out result sheets to APC agents to falsify and declare results in favour of the APC,” he alleged.