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Breaking News: Plateau LG
Polls; New ballot papers allegedly being thumb printed
Dickson Gupiya
November 16, 2018
The
Chairman of the main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Hon. Damisi
Sango has alleged that the services of adhoc staff during the just concluded
Local Government Elections, have been re-engaged to produce new results to
present at the constituted tribunal.
Sango
made this allegation while addressing some journalists at his country home on
Friday.
Plateau
Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) returned the All Progressive
Congress (APC) Chairmanship candidates winners in all the 13 local governments
where the elections were conducted on 10th October, 2018. The PDP
described the exercise as a sham alleging that PLASIEC announced winners of the
elections while collation was still on-going. The opposition party went further
and approached the Local Government Elections Petition Tribunal on its grievances.
According
to Sango, initially, they thought we will not go to the tribunal but now that
we have approached the tribunal and in other to justify the charade, the
bizarre thing they did, they now arranged new ballot boxes and looking for
people to thumbprint new ballot papers so they can present at the tribunal. We
have the information, we have insiders. Presiding officers are called to sign
fabricated results. We have asked our men to go there. We have got moles there
and they have been filming, so now we have more in evidence to nail them at the
tribunal. They have also forgotten that the police have their copies too.”
Sango
said the action was being used as an experiment towards 2019 general elections
and called for its condemnation by all lovers of democracy and good governance.
“May
be it is an order from above to use the Local Government election in Plateau
State as a trial so that when it works, they can apply it during the general
elections in 2019 to return Buhari and Lalong. So, we must look beyond the
Local Government elections because it is an experiment for the future. Nigeria
must watch, Plateau must watch.” Said Sango.
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