Peterside Campaign Organisation accuses PDP and INEC of Interfering with Tribunal
The Campaign Organisation of Dakuku Peterside, the gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers state, has accused the Peoples Democratic Party, and the Independent National Electoral Commission, of planning to mislead the Rivers State Election Tribunal sitting scheduled to commence on Friday.
According to the campaign organisation, the PDP and INEC intend to sponsor claims of theft of Card Reader machines deployed to some areas of the state for the April 11 Governorship/House of Assembly elections.
The statement signed by the Director of media of the organisation, Ibim Semenitari, said: “We not only condemn this resort to judicial cloning, but insist that INEC and PDP have no hiding place from the arm of justice no matter how they twist and twine facts.
“We wonder why INEC has fallen to this depraved state and seemingly irredeemably hooked to the moral harlotry that is PDP.
“The attempt to hide under the judicial certification by the Court of Appeal in securing an Affidavit to strengthen their fraud of April 11 cannot excuse the law of compulsory use of Card Reader machines for the elections.
“INEC had declared that for the purpose of the April 11 elections, where Card Readers failed to function or unavailable, polls should be shifted to the next day, or in extreme case, be called off. INEC and PDP’s attempt to stand this declaration on its head has no locus standi.
“We are aware that INEC and PDP have built an evil marriage, but we also know that Justice has its own way of exposing falsehood and punishing the wicked.
“Faced with the fact that what it declared as results of those elections are flying in the face, and cannot withstand elementary scrutiny, INEC, in criminal bondage and collaboration with PDP, wants to drag a respected institution as the Court of Appeal, into its moral abyss.
“We consider this act too insane to contemplate, and warn PDP and its crop of compromised fellows in INEC that they can only run but cannot hide. A million Affidavits cannot reverse the fact that INEC has no cogent proof it conducted elections in Rivers State on April 11; either would another million Affidavits prove that the so-called results it declared are nothing better than a Toronto certificate,” she said.