FasasiThe Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led Peoples Democratic Party has said that it has no confidence in the Independent National Electoral Commission .
It also alleged that the commission also played what it described as “suspicious role” in frustrating its candidate in the Ondo State governorship election, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN), from campaigning for the election.
Spokesman of the party, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, said this at a press conference in Abuja on Friday.
He alleged that INEC become deliberately operating in opposition to the hobby of the PDP by using placing the call of Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim as its candidate inside the first location and later refusing to honor PDP’s request for a postponement of the election after the courtroom of appeal had affirmed Jegede’s candidacy on Thursday.
Adeyeye, a former minister of the country for works, also alleged that the electoral officials who allegedly rigged the election in Edo kingdom had been being deployed to Ondo to manipulate the polls.
However, the commission has brushed off those allegations, saying that the fears expressed with the aid of the PDP had been unfounded.
It delivered that it might adhere strictly to all principles predicted in a loose and fair election.
The chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of the fee, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, stated this in his response to the PDP allegation.
He brought that the electoral officers being deployed to Ondo have no tainted information.
He stated, ‘In our guiding principle there may be no restrict the number of time a person can be used.
“The simplest thing we can investigate if human beings pop out with evidence that the person compromised.
“you couldn’t question our choice of returning officer. This is our very own inner affairs.
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