…as parties threaten to boycott over compromised INEC officials
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), the All Progressives Congress (APC), and other parties in the Enugu South Rural State Constituency rerun election have accused the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mrs. Elizabeth Awgu, of deploying fake result sheets in a grand plot to rig the election in favour of the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Bright Ngene.
Speaking to newsmen, the Chairman of the PDP in Enugu South LGA, Chief Freedom Nnam, said attempts to get the REC to produce the authentic result sheets for sighting was resisted, alleging that she was in league with some political actors in the LP “to announce an already prepared result.”
“We are at Uwani Secondary school right now, waiting for election materials. All the parties have requested to see the original result sheets, for them to show. We are not comfortable with those fake result sheets they showed us. The result sheets are fake.
“But instead of doing the right thing, she made an instructive statement that no man created by God can stop this election that has already been ‘perfected’; that whether we like it or not, that she is going to call the ‘perfected result’.
“So we were all shocked; and we are asking her, are you for real? Are you for real, please? You must show us the original result sheets.
“This is democracy and we are calling on all lovers of democracy and we are calling on INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu to tell her to stop this nonsense. What is the use of people spending the entire day under the sun when the original result sheets have already been perfected, according to her? It is not right. Let the right thing be done,” Nnam stated.
