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PDP Asks AGF, INEC Chairman To Resign Over Kogi Poll by moshoodable: 7:28pm On Nov 24, 2015 |
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has
asked the Attorney General of the Federation
(AGF), Mallam Abubakar Malami and the
chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmud
Yakubu, to resign their positions.
According to the party, Malami misled the
INEC into arriving at an “unconstitutional
decision” to allow the All Progressives
Congress (APC) to substitute its candidate in
the inconclusive Kogi State governorship
election.
Briefing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday,
PDP’s National Publicity Secretary, Chief
Olisa Metuh, said the party was shocked that
INEC, a supposedly independent electoral
umpire could succumb to the antics of the
APC by following the “unlawful directive” of
an obviously partisan AGF to substitute a
candidate in the middle of the ballot process.
Metuh said, “We are all aware that the two
legal documents guiding INEC in the conduct
of elections; the Constitution and the
Electoral Act, have provisions for electoral
exigencies as well as empower the electoral
body to fully take responsibility for any of its
actions or inactions without undue
interference from any quarters whatsoever.
“We are therefore at a loss as to which
sections of these two relevant laws, INEC and
the AGF relied on in arriving at their bizarre
decision to substitute a dead candidate in an
on-going election even after the timelines for
such has elapsed under all the rules.
“INEC as a statutory body has the full
complements of technical hands in its legal
department to advice it appropriately and we
wonder why it had to wait for directives from
the AGF, an external party, if not for partisan
and subjective interest.
“Consequently, the PDP rejects in its entirety,
this brazen move by the APC and INEC to
circumvent the laws and ambush the yet-to-
be concluded election by introducing a
practice that is completely alien to the
constitution and the electoral act.
“The clear implication of this action of the
AGF and INEC is that the APC would be
fielding two different governorship candidates
in the ongoing Kogi election, meaning that
INEC would be transferring votes cast for late
Prince Abubakar Audu to another candidate,
scenarios that have no place in the
constitution of the land.
“Whereas the PDP, in honour of the sanctity
of human life and respect for the dead, had
since Sunday refrained from making
comments on the conduct of the election, we
can no longer maintain such in the face of
the barefaced attack on our democracy.
“This INEC under the leadership of Prof.
Mahmood Yakubu has shown itself as
partisan, morally bankrupt and obviously
incapable of conducting a credible election
within our laws.
“In view of the foregoing therefore, the PDP
demands an immediate resignation of the
INEC Chairman, as the nation’s democracy
cannot afford to be left in the hands of an
electoral umpire that cannot exert its
independence and the sanctity of the
electoral process.”
As a result of the development, the party has
summoned an emergency national caucus
meeting for Wednesday, to enable it take a
decision on what it described as “threat to
democracy.”
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Re: PDP Asks AGF, INEC Chairman To Resign Over Kogi Poll by Sunnymatey(m): 7:38pm On Nov 24, 2015 |
o! double wahala for death body. |
Re: PDP Asks AGF, INEC Chairman To Resign Over Kogi Poll by Episteme2(m): 7:46pm On Nov 24, 2015 |
This government is in deed a threat to our democracy. One wonders why inDEPENDENT INEC had to wait for the unlawful directives from the subjective AGF. Let them keep setting illegal precedents and let their hangers-on continue supporting their unconstitutional acts. Notes are being taken. |
Re: PDP Asks AGF, INEC Chairman To Resign Over Kogi Poll by jaymichael(m): 8:04pm On Nov 24, 2015 |
INEC is partial. They should have transferred Audu's vote to Wada. INEC is too biased |
Re: PDP Asks AGF, INEC Chairman To Resign Over Kogi Poll by NgeneUkwenu(f): 8:07pm On Nov 24, 2015 |
PDP should shut up! If they have any Grievance, the Court is th right place! Wadas Time is Up! |
Re: PDP Asks AGF, INEC Chairman To Resign Over Kogi Poll by Kuyo: 8:12pm On Nov 24, 2015 |
NgeneUkwenu:Shut up there She- Male |
Re: PDP Asks AGF, INEC Chairman To Resign Over Kogi Poll by henchamb(m): 8:13pm On Nov 24, 2015 |
Even if nurse metuh carry kogi juju for mouth Inec chair and justice minister Wil not resign. Sirs Pls ignore him he is the chief wailer of the killer party |
Re: PDP Asks AGF, INEC Chairman To Resign Over Kogi Poll by henchamb(m): 8:14pm On Nov 24, 2015 |
Kuyo:Shut down ur a** here |
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