PDP conspired with INEC to manipulate election result in Akwa Ibom – Buhari’s aide

The Senior Special Assistant to President Mohammadu Buhari on National Assembly matters (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, has alleged manipulation by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state to hijack the will of the people in just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections in Akwa Ibom state,.

Enang said the results of the February 23 presidential and National Assembly elections do not reflect the reality on ground in the state.

He alleged that the results were manipulated by PDP in connivance with INEC.

At a media briefing in his residence in Uyo on Friday, Enang who is the Director-General of APC Campaign Committee said he had avoided casting aspersions on INEC in the state, the Saturday polls were the lowest that could be credited to it.

He said: “I have in the course of this campaign try to personally avoid castigating the INEC, I have aligned myself with all the complaints that we as a party made against the Resident Electoral Commissioner and I have thought that in the course of the elections he would display what I thought I knew about him in terms of integrity.

“The last election of February 23 in the state was the worse that I could credit to Resident Electoral Commission in Akwa Ibom State. I held him better than that but it is very disappointing that he descended too low to the arena of the election.

“There were a lot of irregularities, several efforts at rigging and the results produce in Akwa Ibom state does not reflect the true voting and the will of the people of the state”.

He urged the teaming supporters of the party not to be discouraged by the results but to maintain their faith APC and come out  enmasse to vote PDP out of power in the state.

Enang who used the occasion to congratulate President Buhari on his re-election for another term in office, said Buhari’s victory should strengthen the people to keep faith with the party.

According to Enang, the situation would have been different if the President had not won the presidential poll adding that every APC state has appropriate relationship with the federal government at the level of projects executions and appointments.

He assured the teaming supporters of the party that though the level of compromise during the last elections was complex, it was being addressed.

“You can feel it that the spirit of the party is high and everybody know what happened during the last election in the state,” he said.

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