BREAKING:
2019: Group warns INEC & U.I Staff, reveals how APC plots to rig elections in Oyo

With barely ten hours to the 2019 presidential and national assembly elections, the National Elections Watch (NEW) has raised alarm over what it called a desperate plot by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oyo State to rig the polls.

State Chairman of NEW, Barr. Adigun Abayomi, in a press statement said that an unholy collaboration among the quartet of Governor Abiola Ajimobi-led APC; the appointed collation officers who were drawn from the University of Ibadan, some top INEC officials and security forces might culminate in the declaration of fake results and deploy lethal force to quell the expected popular resistance.

"We have credible information about the unholy arrangements to perpetrate riggings especially in the opposition partie’s strongholds".

"Part of the plans are to compromise card readers, provide fake army and police uniforms to some recruited thugs as well as announcement of fake results by the retuning officers. Some members of APC Research and Planning Committee who do not want their names in print confided in us that Gov. Ajimobi had assured maximum security covers for the retuning officers after announcing the results that would be given to them".

"We have confirmed that Senator Ajimobi influenced the appointments of Presiding Officers and Returning Officers including their postings. As at 9:00pm tonight, the University of Ibadan Staff who are majorly returning Officers have been handed authentic result sheets of Oyo South and Oyo Central Senatorial Districts for overnight computation of fake results in Agodi Government House."

The NEW, in the statement, urged the opposition parties' agents and the electorates in Oyo State to be very vigilant and resist any rigging plot by the APC. It warned the electoral umpire, the Oyo State Commissioner of Police and the management of the University of Ibadan to call their staff members to order so as to give a room for free, credible and acceptable elections, as any bias roles from them in tomorrow elections is capable of plunging Oyo State into major crisis.