29th March, 2011
The Oyo state chapter of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, to investigate the plot by the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in collaboration with some INEC officials to cause logistic problems in Saturday’s election.
Investigation by members of the ACN in the state has revealed that the PDP has concluded arrangements to thwart the Saturday election by causing logistics delay in most of the polling units where the party is not popular. Some officials of INEC, ACN said, had been working with the PDP to ensure the unholy deed.
Speaking at the end of a meeting held in Ibadan at the Southwest secretariat of the ACN, the publicity secretary of the party, Mr. Matthew Oyedokun disclosed that the PDP had concluded plans to ‘’deliberately, delay the arrival of voting materials to some selected polling units across the state.’’
This, Oyedokun said, was hatched to frustrate voters who would wait endlessly for the voting materials.
Similar ploy, he noted, was adopted in the 2007 general elections and some by-elections in across the country to pave way for victory for the PDP.
He then warned that attempt to carry out any fraud to scuttle the Saturday election would be resisted.
In another development, the ACN, has queried the moral credentials of some PDP candidates who are contesting the Saturday’s election in the State, calling on INEC to step up action in investigating the various allegations of financial impropriety levelled against some of them, especially, Governor Alao Akala and Senator Rasheed Ladoja.
The ACN in a release, has noted that both Akala and Ladoja lacked the moral credibility to contest any election in the state until cleared of all financial scandals. ‘’The two of them in a good democracy should not be qualified to contest any election again in the state until cleared of all financial allegations,’’ thparty said.