Monday 22 October 2012

Guber Poll: Ondo PDP Rejects Results, Blames INEC, Security Agencies

Reacting through a press statement which was made available to journalists on Monday, the Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party {PDP} and the Olusola Oke/Saka Lawal Campaign Organisation has rejected the results of the October  20 Ondo State governorship election released by the Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC}
The party also blamed the independent Electoral Commission and security agencies at all levels for allowing what it called “massive rigging and disenfranchisement of the electorates” during the election.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, had on Sunday 21st of October declared Governor Olusegun Mimiko of the Labour Party winner of the election, saying that he polled 260,199 votes. The Commission also declared that the candidates of the PDP and ACN, Chief Olusola Oke and Barrister Rotimi Akeredolu, polled 155,961 and 147,512 respectively.
The Olusola Oke/Saka Lawal Campaign Organisation which said that the result was regrettable, shameful and disgraceful to Nigeria added that it was and would remain unacceptable to the PDP as a political party and as a stakeholder.
Signed by its Director-General, Dr. Oluwadare Bada, the Campaign Organisation noted that the election was not only marred with irregularities and massive corruption but it has failed to reflect the true desire of the people of Ondo state who were looking forward to the election with high hope of bringing an end to brigandade, waste, corruption and rudderless leadership.
It went further to state that the result that was announced by INEC was a decimation of the people’s avowed march towards enthroning integrity, transparency, modesty, focus and action, adding that the outcome of the election as announced by the Electoral Commission was predetermined, predesigned and organized to be the way it came.
“We are convinced and we say this to the whole world that the factors to this eerie experience were well known to INEC, security forces, Labour Party and Ondo State government before hand. Sadly, both INEC and security agencies chose to ignore them” the statement reads in part.
On security arrangements, the Campaign Organization said that it was shameful that security agencies showed total partisanship and predetermined interest before and during the election, thereby negating there earlier words and promises to address the earlier subversive plans of the Labour Party and the state government that were discovered and reported by the opposition parties before the elections.
“It is sad that the massive rigging and disenfranchisement of the electorates took place in the rural areas whereas security was beefed up in the urban centres. We call for a total overhauling of the office of INEC in Ondo state as well as the state Command of the SSS, Police and the entire Army and Naval Operations in Ondo State”
The Campaign Organization also alleged that INEC refused to conduct elections in some Wards and Units in PDP’s strongholds, robbing the party of vital and massive votes and as well canceled many results for no reason, other than being won by the PDP, in the areas where alaections materials arrived after maximum delay.
The statement also said: “It is no longer news that INEC delayed the supply of election materials to the Local Governments, Wards and Units in our stronghold but did otherwise to the Labour Party’s comfort zones. For example, voting materials and INEC staff did not get to many Wards and Units in Ilaje Local Government, e,g, Ugbo Wards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and Mahin Wards 1 and 2 until afternoon when the time for accreditation was over”
“Same also happened in many places at Ese-Odo Local Government and many parts of Irele and Odigbo Local Government, all in the Southern Senatorial District”
Speaking further, the Olusola Oke/ Saka Lawal Campaign Organization alleged the Labour Party of deploying well over 10 Billion Naira of tax payers’ money to perpetrate itself in office at the dentriment of the beleaguered Ondo State people, stressing that money was freely deployed to buy votes at the polling units especially in the Central and Northern senatorial Districts.
LibertyReport

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