PDP to Sue INEC, Police over Alleged Connivance with APC to Rig Kogi, Bayelsa Elections
POLITICS DIGEST – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it would challenge the outcome of last Saturday’s governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states at the tribunal.
The party also said it would file actions in court against identified officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security officials who allegedly aided the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the violent rigging of the election.
PDP, in a statement issued on Tuesday by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, said that it would not fold its hands and watch the mandates given to its candidates in Kogi and Bayelsa states, Engr. Musa Wada and Senator Douye Diri taken away from them.
“Indeed, the nation is still in shock over the brazen show of violence, where security forces coordinated the invasion of polling units, shooting and killing of voters and carting away of ballot boxes to government facilities where results were altered and fictitious figures given to INEC to declare the APC candidates as winners.
“Nigerians watched with horror as APC thugs and security forces traumatized and held voters hostage, murdered our compatriots, injured and maimed many more in violent attacks that involved the deployment of police helicopters.
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“Our party has been made aware of the roles played by the Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, as well as the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu in the elections,” PDP said.
The statement urged INEC officials and security agencies to do some introspection on the anguish they have caused the people from the two states since the results of the elections were announced, and said it would not hesitate to expose such ignoble roles at the appropriate time.
“The irreversible fact remains that though evil may appear to thrive for a while, truth and justice will always prevail at the end.
“The APC and its candidates must bear in mind that what they could not get through the ballot box, they cannot get by violence, manipulation and killing,” the party stated.
The party also promised to use all legitimate means available and allowed within democratic practice to retrieve its mandate from those it described as usurpers.
PDP also condemned the killings that characterized the elections, especially the brutal murder of its Woman Leader, Acheju Abuh, who was burnt to death by political thugs at her home on Monday.
“While invoking the wrath of God on the perpetrators of the gruesome killings, the party calls on the police to immediately track down and bring their killers to book.
“Indeed, their death will never be in vain as the mandates for which they were killed will surely be recovered,” the party assured.
 said it would challenge the outcome of last Saturday’s governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states at the tribunal.){kind=link}