Assembly Election: APC Working With INEC To Rig In Kogi Western Senatorial District.

Says INEC EO's In Ijumu, Yagba Already Compromised

The Peoples Democratic Party says it has uncovered plans by the APC led administration to rig the forthcoming State House of Assembly election in the Western Senatorial District by using the INEC Electoral Officers to rig the election.

The PDP says the INEC Electoral Officers of Ijumu, Yagba, Lokoja would be holding their last strategic meeting in Kogi Government House Lokoja with the Chief of Staff, other stakeholders to perfect the rigging plans.

As part of the APC plan, the APC led administration have in their possession ballot papers and original result sheets given to them by INEC who have been assigned conventional and fake policemen to carry out the plan to steal the peoples mandate.

According to an inside source, the Kogi State Government having lost the Western Senatorial District in the last presidential and national assembly election has mandated all it political appointees to at all cost deliver in the next Saturday's election.

But not satisfied with whether the appointees from West would deliver, efforts to secure victory at all cost had made the APC led administration to involve Electoral officers, who have released ballot papers and result sheets to some officials of government enable them win the seven local government in Kogi West Senatorial district.

But in a swift reaction, the PDP through it Director Research and Documentation, Dickson Achadu, says the party is aware of the nefarious scheme by the APC.

The PDP equally warned INEC of connivance, insisting that the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Prof. James Apam should in the interest of fairness, as umpires swap all electoral officers posted to the seven local government areas of Kogi West senatorial district.

The PDP says it frowns at the allegations of ballot papers claimed to be in the hands of APC, lamented at INEC connivance to trample on the peoples will, promised that the party would resist using every legal means plans by the APC led administration to rig election in Kogi West Senatorial District and the state as a whole.