Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to distance itself from
an alleged plot to compromise the Electoral Guidelines and pave the way
for the alteration of the forthcoming general elections results.
The Director, Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign
Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, gave the advise at a news conference on
Wednesday in Abuja.
Ologbondiyan alleged that Nigerians were
already aware that the commission’s Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, was
under pressure to drop the display of results at the polling units as
well as the electronic transmission of polled figures to INEC server
from its guidelines.
He
said that the display of results at the polling units ensured that
results posted at all levels remained those originally announced at the
various polling units, while the electronic transmission to INEC server
ensured that the results from the polling centres were not tampered
with.
“Prof. Yakubu must not succumb to the
pressure of the Buhari Presidency, because doing so will definitely set
him on a collision course with Nigerians,’’ he said
However, the Chief Press Secretary to INEC
Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, dismissed the allegations and urged the
PDP to provide the evidence in its possession to prove them.
“Otherwise, the PDP should cure itself of
this recurring hallucination which I am sure Nigerians no longer buy.
Certainly, INEC is not into the rigging business,’’ he said.