PDP to rig 10 L.G.As in Osun state

APC condemns PDP’s win at all cost attitude to the
August 9 election.
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of planning to
massively rig the August 9 governorship election in
10 local governments in Osun State, in addition to
seeking a pliable person as a returning officer.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its
National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the
party said President Goodluck Jonathan reportedly
told the security agencies that he wanted victory for
his party at all costs, an admonition that would
definitely shape the agencies’ perception of the
election as a do-or-die affair.
“Nigerians from all walks of life, desirous of a free
and fair election on Saturday, are reaching out to us
with useful information on the plan by the desperate
PDP to rig the forthcoming election, and we are
taking the information very seriously,” the party
said.
“For example, we learnt that the PDP has identified
Ife Central, Ife East, Ife North, Ife South, Olurunda,
Iwo, Ifelodun, Osogbo, Odo Otin and Aiyedade as
places where they plan to perpetrate massive
rigging. Two different results have allegedly been
written ahead of the elections while three Vice
Chancellors, one from the North Central and two
from the South West, have been pencilled down to
serve as a returning officer. The incentive for the
returning officer who can announce the doctored
results is N1 billion,” it said.
The party said when these plans are put together
with the massive deployment of security agencies
to Osun to harass and intimidate the opposition, the
huge amounts of cash being moved into the state
via armoured personnel carriers, and the electoral
malfeasance specialist-ministers who have landed
in Osun, it was clear that the PDP was working hard
to ensure that the forthcoming election was anything
but free, fair and credible.
It therefore called on INEC not to allow any
unscrupulous person to serve as a returning officer
for the election, and to pay a special attention to
voting in the identified local governments, where the
PDP planned to influence the outcome of the
election.
”No one will accept the result of an election in which
the returning officer is compromised with filthy
lucre. This is why were are calling on INEC to
ensure that only a person of integrity can serve in
that important post,” APC said, warning that its
agents would not sign any false results from the
August 9 election.
The party also called on the international community
to pay attention to the issues that could affect the
outcome of the election, instead of waiting until the
deed had been done.
“The biggest danger to Saturday’s election in Osun
is the unbridled desperation of the PDP to win at all
costs. This explains why the party’s candidate, Mr.
Iyiola Omisore, has lied so shamelessly about a
purported USAID survey that puts him ahead of Gov.
Aregbesola. But for USAID which quickly put a lie to
the peddled story, Mr. Omisore would have
continued to use it as a campaign tool,” it said.