National Publicity Secretary, Action Congress of Nigeria, Alhaji Lai Mohamme
The
All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party have
expressed different opinion on Saturday governorship election in
Anambra State.
While the APC demanded a total
cancellation of the entire election based on alleged massive
disenfranchisement of voters, the PDP said the APC wanted to rig the
election with thugs.
The APC, in a statement by
its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the
disenfranchisement of voters was caused by blatant incompetent and/or
deliberate sabotage of the electoral process by the Independent
National Electoral Commission.
It said its call for the cancellation
of the poll superseded its earlier demand for a rerun in four local
government areas,and was based on the report it received from its agents
as well as local and foreign observers in the state.
The party alleged that INEC,
inexplicably used a voter’ register that was totally different from what
it gave to political parties ahead of the election.
The statement reads in part, ‘’We
discovered that INEC has set up a multi-layer arrangement to ensure that
most voters in the state were disenfranchised, apparently acting out a
script to manipulate the result of the election in favour of a certain
candidate. Where voting materials were supplied, the commission provided
wrong voters’ register.”
But the PDP commended President
Goodluck Jonathan for providing adequate security and the enabling
environment for a credible, free and fair election in the state in
spite of any perceived hitch(es).
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