Edo Poll: PDP alleges Oshiomhole doled out $170,000 to Police Officer to rig for APC

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State has alleged a high-level

conspiracy between the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Police to

rig the September 28 governorship election in favour of the APC candidate,

Mr Godwin Obaseki.
The PDP, in a press release by its Media and Publicity Committee, said

that the Inspector General of Police, based on the request of Governor

Adams Oshiomhole, has deployed a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP),Ahmed

Bello, to lead the final onslaught to ensure the success of APC’s plan to

manipulate the election result.
It claimed that the governor had already mobilised DCP Ahmed with $170,000.

According to the PDP, “It has come to attention of the Edo State PDP that

the official conspiracy to rig the September 28 Edo State governorship

election in favour of the APC has assumed a most worrisome dimension for

the fact that the Nigerian Police Force that is supposed to provide

security, orderliness and ensure an atmosphere for free and fair election

is being compromised from the highest authority.
“We have it on good authority that based on the request of the governor,

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the Inspector General of Police, has deployed to

Edo State, a hatchet man to lead the final onslaught against identified

leaders and members of the PDP who are considered a threat to the

manipulation plan of the APC.
“The officer so deployed is by name, Ahmed Bello, a Deputy Commissioner of

Police of the Mobile Police Unit. He has been given the brief of leading a

crack team of officers on the inglorious assignment.

“As a motivation for the special job, we have been reliably informed that

the DCP, Ahmed Bello was mobilized with $170,000 by the governor.”

The PDP stated further, “We are hereby using this medium to alert the

general public, including the International Community to the high level

conspiracy against the practice of Democracy in Nigeria and Edo State in

particular.
“We wish to emphasize that the desperation of the APC is a great threat to

peace of the State as the response to this attempt to frustrate the right

of the people to freely choose their leader cannot be predicted.

“The APC needs to be reminded that the democratic freedom which they have

so desperately opposed since they took over power at the federal level is

the condition that enabled them to be in control.
“No matter the level of intimidation and harassment, we enjoin our party

members to remain strong and Edo people to remain resolute to change the

change which has made life difficult to live.”

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