Isiaka warns Amosun against tampering with electoral materials
The campaign organisation of Ogun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Prince Gboyega Nasir Isiaka has raised the alarm on the strange and mid night movement of some suspected All Progressive Congress (APC) members around the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the weekend.
The organisation, however warned Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his party against tampering with the documents or ready to face the consequence.
A statement issued on Sunday by the spokesperson of the organisation, Comrade Ifekayode Akinbode disclosed that since Thursday when the Election Petition Tribunal in Abeokuta granted Isiaka’s application to inspect all electoral materials, some suspected APC members had been hovering around the INEC office with the aim of tampering with the documents.
Akinbode, who said the alarm became imperative because of some suspected INEC staff that collude with the APC to compromise the election are still in the electoral body’s pay roll, while they are working as APC’s agents to tamper with the electoral materials.
He said: “We have reports that on Thursday evening some APC members held a meeting where they perfected plans to induce some INEC staff who had been their collaborators in mischief with money to allow them have access to the store where voting materials used for April 11 elections are kept. But we are warning them not to cause unnecessary crisis in the state by their desperation to obstruct the cause of justice.
“There is nowhere for them to hide again. As democrats, our intention is to let the whole world know how the election was manipulated in 9 local councils and to get back the mandate Ogun State people freely given to Prince Isiaka through legitimate means, but we shall resist any attempt to continue thumb printing of ballot papers four months after the election”.
Akinbode, however, called on the police and Department of State Security (DSS) to keep an eagle eye on the store of the INEC office in Abeokuta where the documents are being kept.
It would be recalled that Amosun and his party vehemently opposed Isiaka’s application to inspect the materials but they were over ruled by the Tribunal that granted Isiaka unfettered access to inspect the electoral materials.
Akinbode said: “We hereby call on our supporters and Ogun State people who have been subjected to untold hardship and victimisation to remain calm and await justice which must surely come
