Kogi/Beyelsa elections: Nigeria's democracy is under threat - Secondus cries out
- PDP national chairman, Uche Secondus has finally reacted over Bayelsa and Kogi elections
- APC had defeated PDP in the Saturday, November 16, governorship elections in both states
- Secondus, however, alleged that the elections were rigged to favour the ruling APC
Uche Secondus, the national chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has alleged that Nigeria's democracy is under threat over the violence recorded during the Saturday, November 16, governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states.
Channels TV reports that he called for the cancellation of the governorship elections in both states, insisting that the elections were marred by violence, which led to several deaths.
Legit.ng gathered that Secondus, who addressed journalists after a meeting of the party’s board of trustees in Abuja, stated that the party has video evidence of malpractices committed during the conduct of the elections.
He said: "As the world witnessed, the official conspiracies, bloodletting and mindless killing of innocent citizens by agents of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration in connivance with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to aid the forceful seizure of power in the November 16, Kogi and Bayelsa state governorship elections, clearly show that our democracy is under severe attack.
"In an apparent organized attack, government-controlled police and military, working for the APC, deployed dangerous assault weapons, including helicopters to coordinate the violent invasion of polling units with maximum force; shooting, killing and maiming unarmed civilians, who were called out by government to perform their civic responsibilities at the elections."
Secondus said that the world watched with horror as killer security agents brutalized voters and carted away ballot boxes to government facilities were results were written in favour of the APC and handed to a heavily compromised INEC.
He said from the report gathered by the party indicated that no fewer than 30 innocent compatriots were killed and many more injured in this organised crime against humanity by the APC, the police and INEC.
"Most distressing is the gruesome incineration of one of our party’s woman leaders in Kogi state, Mrs. Acheju Abuh, in her home by APC thugs, a crime that was abetted by unscrupulous security agents.
"The leadership of our great party has thoroughly reviewed incontrovertible pieces of documentary of evidence including video clips, graphic pictures, witness testimonies, manipulated results sheets, proofs of compromising of INEC officials and other hard facts to establish the culpability of the police and INEC in the electoral fraud," he added.
The PDP also restates that we have the details of the roles played by the Police high command and the INEC as well as other security and INEC officials in this election. Those details will be made public at the appropriate forum and time.
Secondus said: "It is instructive to call the attention of Nigerians and the international community to the fact that since the election, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC federal government has failed to take any concrete steps to investigate the issues and bring culprits to book.
"The PDP states without equivocation that invasion of polling units and killing of voters to manipulate electoral results cannot be allowed in our democratic space. If the APC’s political brigandage that happened in Kogi and Bayelsa state is allowed to stand, such would be extended to other elections including the 2023 general elections and that would be a death knell to our democracy."
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that a former governor of Niger state, Babangida Aliyu, called on the INEC to cancel the polls.
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