The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara State wants to sue the Independent National Electoral Commission in Zamfara for what it called INEC’s blatant compromise of electoral procedures.
Addressing newsmen in the party’s headquarters in Gusau, the chairman APC Publicity Committee, Ibrahim Muhammad Ibrahim Birnin Magaji said at the beginning things started on a very good footing.
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According to him, until when the INEC seemed to have compromised and started to operate as another Zamfara State Government agency doing the bidding of the People’s Democratic Party.
“Although the results of over 30 polling Units in Rini, Birnin Tudu, Bakura and Yargeda were cancelled during the collation exercise by INEC, the INEC however unilaterally and singlehandedly upturned its earlier verdict and came out with what can best be described as random selection of 14 polling units where its conducted the said runoff election.
“INEC did not take into cognizance the APC’s critical role as major stakeholder in the exercise and therefore went solo to finish the dirty job it started and that was what informed our earlier decision to pull out of the supplementary election,” Birnin Magaji said.
He said the complicity of the security agencies in the large scale violence that marred the December 5 exercise was so glaring that some of their operatives were used in the intimidation, vote-buying and ballot snatching.
“Some members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the state are now in EFCC custody for an alleged vote-buying during the runoff election last Wednesday,” he added.
