PDP, INEC IN UNHOLY ALLIANCE, SAYS OYO APC
As controversies continue to trail the continuous voter registration exercise embarked upon by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in most states of the federation, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State has raised the alarm over an alleged underhand deal between the electoral umpire and some unnamed influential leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in which some members of the PDP in the state have been made to gain possession of some INEC’s data capturing machines with which they carry out illegal registration of fake voters with a view to rigging the 2015 general elections in their favour.
Oyo APC said, in a statement issued in Ibadan today by its Director of Publicity and Strategy, Olawale Sadare, that he had credible information about how some top officials of the PDP in Abuja facilitated the deal which made INEC to release some of the machines to certain individuals from Oyo State who are believed to be working underground to perfect the rigging plans of the ruling party ahead of the 2015 general elections.
“We felt obliged to expose the latest shady deal between the PDP and INEC as it concerns the possession of the data capturing machines belonging to the electoral body by some influential members of the ruling party in the state. We have it on good authority that a clique of PDP elements which enjoys the backing of the presidency has successfully facilitated the release of a good number of DCMs to some power mongers in Oyo State who have handed them to their agents who now carry out illegal registration of fake voters in some parts of the state.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we have detail of how a political office holder from Ogbomoso, who is very close to the Villa, requested from INEC to be given about 20 DCMs and eventually got five which are now being put into illegal use at some hidden locations in the ancient city. In addition to this, some PDP agents were noticed to be going round in some parts of Ibadan North East, Egbeda, Ona-Ara, Oluyole among other local government areas to recruit vulnerable individuals whose data they capture in some locations using INEC machines.
“The fact that the PDP leadership in the state took the open collection of the permanent voter cards and continuous voter registration exercises with a pinch of salt lends credence to the latest unholy alliance between INEC and the PDP. However, APC as a party which is determined to liberate the masses from 16 years of bad governance would not rest on its oars to ensure that the people actualize the desirous change which they seriously want in 2015.” The statement concluded.
