INEC, Kogi Government Planning to Rig Elections – ADC

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The Kogi State Chapter of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) said it has uncovered plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) led state government to rig the 2019 general elections in the state.

The party also alleged it had learned that the state government gave a N250m-bribe to the state Resident Electoral Commissioner, as well as other electoral officers to influence the forthcoming election in favour of APC.

Addressing a press conference in Abuja, yesterday, ADC’s national chairman, Ralph Okey Nwosu said the people of the state should be worried that the government could use such large amount for selfish gains despite recent resignation of over 80 medical doctors from the State public service over unpaid salaries and poor working environment.

He said: ‘It is sad that Civil servants in the state are still being owed over 12 months salaries, while pensioners are wallowing in pains, poverty and hunger.

Yet the government just perfected plans to upturn the people’s wish at the coming polls by squandering such a whopping sum. What a double tragedy.”

Nwosu, who spoke through his personal assistant, Emeka Nzekwesi, said Yahaya Bello’s administration and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had perfected plans to rig the elections by creating additional polling units without other political parties’ knowledge.

“This clandestine arrangement was designed to hoodwink other political parties into thinking that the numbers of polling units in each wards remain as it were, while the newly created polling units, which will have no party agents on ground other than that of APC, will be used to allocate votes to all APC candidates,” he said.


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