Osun gov’ship: APC, PDP trade words over alleged rigging plans
The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the leading opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are trading words over alleged plans to rig the September 22, 2018 governorship election in Osun State.
The APC Acting National Publicity Secretary, Mr Yekini Nabena, reacted yesterday to PDP’s directive to its governors and presidential aspirants to mobilise their political machinery to the state ahead of the governorship election.
Nabena said the APC was worried because the directive coincided with the situation field report alleging PDP’s plan to clone Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) to use in the Osun election.
On his part, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, had also said in a statement on Monday that “it is clear that the APC is only interested brazenly.”
But the in APC rigging said the elections leading opposition party’s public rigging plan was a red flag that required urgent probe by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and relevant security agencies.
The party, which said PDP had revealed plans to deploy thugs and rig the Osun governorship and other elections, however expressed confidence that the good people of Osun would resist the PDP’s alleged deployment to takeover the state by force.
In another statement issued yesterday in Abuja, PDP through its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said it had resolved to set up monitoring teams in all the polling centres ahead of the September 22 governorship election in the state, to stop the APC from “rigging” the election.