The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organization (PPCO), has condemned the alleged plot by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Presidency to rig the 2019 general elections in favor of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by creating illegal polling centers in Chad and Niger Republic.
In a press statement issued by its Director, Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan yesterday, PPCO described the alleged plot by INEC and President Buhari to secretly create polling centers outside the shores of the country, in total violation of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), as inexcusably criminal and exposes part of the plot to corrupt our electoral system and massively rig for President Buhari.
Ologbondiyan averred that “President Buhari, INEC and all Nigerians know that there are no provisions for Diaspora voting under our system. By the extant laws guiding elections in Nigeria, it is very
clear who is eligible to vote, as well as the centers statutorily designated for elections. There is no provision for any special arrangement whatsoever.
“It is therefore reprehensible that President Buhari, in his desperation to rig the elections, is now trying to hide under the guise of making special provisions for IDPs, to illegally create
rigging centers outside our country and import contrived figures into the election results.
“This clandestine arrangement further validates the alarm earlier raised by the PDP, in April this year, of INEC’s plot to secretly create 30,000 illegal polling centers in some remote areas, through
which they plan to allocate millions of votes to President Buhari and the APC.
“Nigerians can now see that the APC and its candidate are not committed to peaceful, credible, free and fair election. Having realized that there is no way he can win in a peaceful and credible
election, Mr. President is now seeking means to enmesh the 2019 elections in constitutional crisis, public confusion and trigger an imminent violence that is capable of derailing our entire democratic
process.
“If President Buhari is in any way inclined towards Diaspora voting, he should send an appropriate bill to the National Assembly for approval to accommodate not only Nigerians in Chad and Niger Republic,
but also those in other sub-Sahara countries as well as Europe, America and other parts of the world, who have been agitating for Diaspora voting,’’ he stated.
Ologbondiyan warned the presidency and INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, not to set the country on fire by engaging in provocative actions in a desperation to rig the 2019 presidential election for President Buhari.
