We Are Not Into The Rigging Business, INEC Tell PDP

INEC Denies Plot To Rig 2019 Elections For APC Led Federal Government

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied the allegations raised  by Peoples Democratic party (PDP)  over plot to compromise the Electoral Guidelines and pave the way for the alteration of the forthcoming general election results.

This demand has become imperative in the face of allegations and public apprehensions that the @inecnigeria Chairman is being offered humongous sums of money, running into billions of naira, by agents of the APC and the cabal at the Buhari Presidency to accede to their demands.

— Official PDP Nigeria (@OfficialPDPNig) January 2, 2019

The Director, Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, gave the advise at a news conference on Wednesday in Abuja.

Ologbondiyan alleged that Nigerians were already aware that the commission’s Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, was under pressure to drop the display of results at the polling units as well as the electronic transmission of polled figures to the server of the electoral umpire from its guidelines.

PDP Slams INEC And APC Led Federal Government Over Fresh Plot To rig 2019 Elections https://t.co/xcVwCiGqrr #News #2019GeneralElections #INEC Via @NaijaNews

— Nigeria News (@NaijaNews) January 2, 2019

He said that the display of results at the polling units ensured that results posted at all levels remained those originally announced at the various polling units, while the electronic transmission to INEC server ensured that the results from the polling centres were not tampered with.

“Prof. Yakubu must not succumb to the pressure of the Buhari Presidency, because doing so will definitely set him on a collision course with Nigerians,” he said

However, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, dismissed the allegations and urged the PDP to provide the evidence in its possession to prove them.

“Otherwise, the PDP should cure itself of this recurring hallucination which I am sure Nigerians no longer buy. Certainly, INEC is not into the rigging business,” he said.

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