Tribunal: Igini, PDP Destroying Election Materials – APC Cries To AGF … Demands Immediate Relocation of Tribunal To FCT
By UbongAbasi Ise
As post-election disputes are
heading to tribunal, the Akwa Ibom State Chapter of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, has raised alarm over electoral manipulation as it notifies the
Attorney General of the Federation on alleged attempt by the State INEC Resident
Electoral Commissioner, REC, Mr. Mike Igini, agents of the Peoples’ Democratic
Party, PDP, and Akwa Ibom State Government, to destroy electoral materials
needed to substantiate the election petitions of the APC candidates.
In a letter issued Thursday and
signed by the State APC Chairman, Mr. Ini Okopido, with copies to The Inspector
General of Police; Director General, Department of State Security Service; and
Director General, National Intelligence Agency, the APC accuses the Akwa Ibom REC
of superintending over a grand scheme to create confusion and to thwart the
justice.
“We want to place on record and
bring to your attention the very obvious and noticeable attempt by the INEC
Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Mike Igini, in
collusion with agents of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Akwa Ibom State
Government to perpetuate electoral fraud by destroying electoral materials
needed to substantiate the election petitions of candidates of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State.
“We observe with deep regrets
that since Mr. Mike Igini superintended over the worst general elections ever
conducted in Akwa Ibom State, that was fraught with manifest irregularities and
wide spread electoral infractions, the REC is now unveiling a grand scheme to
thwart and create a chaotic environment to pave way for the pervasion of
justice,” the letter reads.
The Akwa Ibom APC further alleged
that Mr. Mike Igini has resorted to intimidating the INEC ad hoc staff that
participated in the just concluded elections and coerce them to be fabricating
false reports of electoral malpractices and results to the disfavor of the APC
candidates.
“ We have been reliably informed
that the REC is now intimidating electoral officers who participated in the
just concluded general elections in the State, particularly, Collation
Officers, Supervisory Presiding Officers (SPOs), Presiding Officers (POs) and
Assistant Presiding Officers (APOs), handing over their phone numbers to hired
assassins and PDP killer squad to forcefully coerce them to concoct and
fabricate false reports of violence, ballot paper snatching, all in a bid to
justify the clandestine activities of Mr. Mike Igini days after the purported
declaration of results, seeing that unit results will expressly show that
candidates of the All Progressives Congress clearly won the elections by the
votes directly delivered at the polling units across the state.
“This latest action by the leadership
of INEC in Akwa Ibom State has vindicated our stand expressed in various foras
before the general elections that Mr. Mike Igini is a biased umpire, heavily
compromised by the Akwa Ibom State Government to truncate the smooth conduct of
a free and fair elections. We therefore reiterate in unambiguous terms, that
INEC under Mr. Mike Igini cannot guarantee credibility and the ethos of fair
play as demonstrated with this plot hatched to frustrate the electoral
process,” the letter said.
The party called for the
immediate relocation of the elections tribunal to the Abuja to forestall
breakdown of law and order, including the immediate redeployment of Mr. Mike
Igini to pave way for a level-playing field for all parties that participated
in the elections.
APC further urged the security
agencies to provide adequate security to all ad-hoc staffs of INEC in the state
and properly investigate and bring to book, thugs reportedly paid by the PDP to
intimidate non-yielding election officials.
©The Sensor Newspaper
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