Edo Guber Poll: INEC must use the card readers for accreditation, says PDP

…alleges APC plots to rig through manual accreditation

The state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Dan Orbih,

has alleged a plot by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to rig the

September 28 governorship election through the use of manual accreditation

of voters.
Orbih, however, stated at a press conference yesterday in Benin that the

PDP would insist on the use of the card readers for accreditation of

voters in the election.
He said that the APC had planned to influence the Independent National

Electoral Commission (INEC) to dump the card readers for manual

accreditation as part of its grand plan to manipulate the process and skew

the outcome in its favour.
Orbih stated that the APC is using the eighteen days by which the election

was postponed to, among other vote-catching gimmicks, perfect its rigging

plot.
According to him, “It is clear to the APC that there is no way it can win

in a free and fair contest. Consequently, there is a plan by the APC to,

among other things, ensure that the card readers do not function.”

He accused the state governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and his agents of

instigating the mass arrests of PDP leaders and members by the police

ahead of September 28 so as to dampen the morale of party members and its

supporters.
He alleged that the mass arrests and intimidation had since commenced.

Orbih displayed a letter of invitation from the police to a party leader

claiming an investigation into the leader’s conduct that could lead to a

security breach, pointing out that this was a pattern being adopted to

harass PDP members.
He also said that as part of the plan to intimidate uncompromising

influential members of the party, the state governor and his agents had

sent thugs after them.
He stated that the PDP has recorded casualties with members sustaining

various degrees of injury from gunshots.
He displayed photographs of some members who were allegedly attacked.

Orbih also alleged that as part of the grand plan to rig the rescheduled

election, the state governor acting in concert with his highly influential

contacts at INEC, is planning to replace all the Electoral Officers in Edo

State with Electoral Officers from APC-controlled states.

While thanking Edo people whose resolve to change the APC has put the

ruling party on edge, Orbih assured them that the PDP would do everything

legally possible to ensure that their votes for the PDP in the September

election count.
He stated that the PDP would resist all attempts by the ruling party to

rig the election.
Responding to questions about the allegations made by Governor Oshiomhole

that the PDP received two billion naira from a PDP governor and that it

registered eight thousand militants from the neighbouring states, Orbih

said there was no truth in the allegations.
He challenged the governor to show proof of such financial transaction as

two billion naira is not an amount that you can move around in cash.

He also stated that it was an indictment of the security agencies for the

governor to claim that eight thousand armed men had moved into the state

to disrupt the election., pointing out that the governor was only showing

signs of desperation knowing full well that the people have rejected the

APC.
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