PDP has described as shocking and bizarre, the calls
by the Police and DSS for INEC to postpone the
Saturday September 10th governorship election in
Edo state due to security reasons. The police and
DSS in a joint press statement yesterday said
intelligence available to them suggests that there
might be an attack in some states in Nigeria during
the Sallah holidays, especially in Edo state. Read the
statement from PDP after the cut...
Our attention has been drawn to the shocking
breaking news of the advise by the DSS and
the Police to the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Gubernatorial Election in Edo State on excuse
of insurgency alert. We are taken aback on
this advise coming a day after the President
and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed
Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
Muhammadu Buhari was present at the Mega
Rally of its Party, the APC in Benin City
which was concluded without any hitch. "It is
on record that INEC recently conducted a
'hitch free' Senatorial By-Election in Borno
State which is a high-point of insurgency in
the Country but the Security Agencies saw
no reason to call-off the Election. It is
therefore lamentable to hear from these same
security agencies that the Election cannot be
held in a State where in less than 24 hours,
the President and all the APC leaders and
members had an uninterrupted Rally".
We are calling on the President, Muhammadu
Buhari to caution the security agencies and
direct them to provide full security, and also
to desist doing anything that will jeopardize
this forthcoming Gubernatorial Election in
Edo State. We are equally counting on INEC
not to succumb to this false alarm by acting
independently and holding election as
scheduled. "We hope that this advice from the
security agencies are not in concert with the
APC of having seen the indices of loosing the
Edo State Gubernatorial Election to the
PDP". Finally, the Party leadership led by
Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, CON,
call on our members, teeming supporters,
other Edo voters and the international
community to remain law-abiding while
staying alert on this calculated attempt at
scuttling our hard earned democracy.
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