Peoples Democratic Party’s chairman (PDP), Uche Secondus, has called on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Yakubu Mahmoud, to resign.
The chairman released this statement shortly after the INEC chairman prof. Yakubu Mahmoud announced the postponement of the election to February 23.
He further stated that the postponement was a ‘grand design’ by the All Progressives Congress to hinder the will of the people at all cost.
“ APC in connivance with INEC have been trying all options including but not limited to burning down INEC offices in some states and destroying of electoral materials to create artificial problems upon which to stand for their dubious act.
“With several of their rigging options failing, they have to force INEC to agree to a shift in the election or a staggered election with flimsy excuses pre-manufactured for the purpose,”
“For the avoidance of doubt the PDP sees this action as wicked and we are also aware of other dubious designs like the deployment of hooded security operatives who would be ruthless on the people ostensibly to scare them away.”
Secondus also said the “wicked killing” of over 60 persons mostly women and children in southern Kaduna few days to the election “is a copious ploy by the APC to intimidate the people away from voting knowing too well that they were not going to record any vote from the area”.
The INEC chairman had earlier on announced the postponement of the elections to February 23 citing logistic problems and insecurity.
This is the third consecutive time after 2011 and 2015 that the election is postponed due to the specified problems.