Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it would resist attempts from any quarters to rig the July 14 Governorship Election in the state, stressing that it would mobilise the people against any electoral immorality.
The party, which has consistently alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is working with some compromised Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials and security agencies, said despite the APC’s likely resort to federal might, it would do everything possible to win the election.
The party in a statement issued yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, restated that the will of the people is stronger than the machinations of evil-minded persons, who, the party alleged, were toying with the determination of the people to ensure a free and fair election.
“INEC officials working with agents of the APC to compromise the process are brazenly risking the legitimate wrath of the people of Ekiti State in their iron-cast resolve to ensure that nobody subverts their will in this election.
“The people of Ekiti state are already aware of the clandestine meetings between known INEC officials and APC agents, including those held at the Ondo state Government House, Akure, where plots were hatched to use INEC’s ICT Department to preload card readers and input false results.
“It is also aware of the plans to clone unclaimed Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) to superimpose pictures of their members from other states”, it said warning that there will be dire consequences if the poll were rigged.
Further, the former ruling party cautioned those allegedly compromised INEC officers, their allies in the APC and those the APC planned to import from other states, to retrace their steps.
“These should note that their tracks and footprints are all bare and that the people of Ekiti state are already at alert and ready to stop them on their trails with every potent weapon available to them under the law.
“What the APC and their cohorts in INEC fail to note is that Ekiti is a contiguous state where every indigene and residents know and can identify one another other as individuals and families and that as such there is no way strangers imported from other states can be allowed to sneak in and participate in their election.
“Let it be known to all that the PDP is fully mobilized for the July 14 election. The people of Ekiti state are fully rallied to vigilance at every polling unit, every collation centre as well as every exit and entry points in their respective areas across the state to ensure that nobody subverts their collective will.
“We restate the fact, it is clearly known both to the INEC and the APC, that Ekiti state is a stronghold of the PDP and that the people are solidly behind the PDP, particularly due to the sterling performance of Governor Ayo Fayose in developing the state in all spheres of lives”, the statement concluded.
