Secondus insists INEC working hard to rig 2019 polls

National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, yesterday, reiterated their stand that the INEC is doing everything possible to rig the 2019 general elections in favour of the ruling APC.

Secondus also said the PDP was in full support of the National Assembly’s position on elections sequence, saying there was nothing wrong in the new order where presidential election would come last.

Speaking at a meeting of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT) yesterday in Abuja, Secondus said the opposition party would use its strength to resist any form of rigging in 2019.

“We want Nigeria to know that INEC is doing everything to rig elections in 2019.ý It happened in 2015 and we will not allow it to happen in 2019. Why are they registering underage Nigerians?

“We are determined and have resolved to resist all the illegalities in this country. This is the right time for those who left our party to come back. The APC is not a party; they have failed in virtually all sectors.

“Today, Nigerians are not safe; there are killings here and there. This government is misleading Nigerians that some of the 94 kidnapped girls in Yobe are rescued; but we got reliable information that they have not been rescued. We ask Buhari to ensure that our girls are rescued,” Secondus said. Governor Aminu Masari’s exemplary leadership was the yardstick that earned him Zik Good Governance Award, the governor’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Abdu Labaran Malumfashi, said yesterday.

In a chat with Daily Trust in Katsina, Malumfashi said Masari was committed to restoring the lost glory of the state, a stride that was being acknowledged by advocates of quality leadership.

It would be recalled that Masari was last week named as one of the recipients of the award as he joined the list of other leaders who bagged same award, including a former South African President, Nelson Mandela, and a former Ghanaian President, Jerry Rawlings.

He said the Chairman of the Award Committee, Professor Pat Utomi, had said the awardees were selected after a thorough and rigorous scrutiny of nominees in an exercise which reflected the tradition of excellence with which the annual Zik award had come to be associated and identified with since it was established 24 years ago.