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INEC chairman refuse to allow Atiku access election materials despite court order – PDP cries out

Zuladine Ibrahim
By Zuladine Ibrahim
Published: March 16, 2019
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Saturday said Prof Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has refused the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar access to election materials.

Okay Nigeria had reported that a Court of Appeal ordered INEC to allow Atiku Abubakar inspect ballot materials used in the February 23 presidential election.

But, Kola Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the PDP, said Yakubu and the leadership INEC have refused to obey the order of the appellate court, given on March 6, 2019.

The statement reads: “It is imperative to inform Nigerians that upon obtaining the lawful order of the Court, directing INEC to forthwith, avail Atiku Abubakar and the PDP copies of all the documents and other materials used for the Presidential election, our legal team wrote to the INEC Chairman on the 11th and 12th of March 2019 respectively, causing the Order to be served on INEC and requesting access to the said documents and materials.

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“Despite being served with the Order and several follow-ups, the leadership of INEC has refused to grant the PDP and Atiku Abubakar access to the materials and documents, notwithstanding the urgency of the matter.

“This action by the leadership of INEC has further exposed that it has been heavily compromised by the Buhari Presidency to rig the February 23, 2019 Presidential election and to frustrate the quest by Nigerians to reclaim the mandate from President Muhammadu Buhari and save the nation from the crisis of an illegitimate government.

“The leadership of INEC and the APC are seeking to frustrate our court option, seeing that the documents and materials will expressly show that Atiku Abubakar clearly won the election by the votes directly delivered at the polling units across the country as well as expose how the commission and the Buhari Presidency manipulated the results for President Buhari.

“The PDP cautions the INEC to note that Nigerians are now aware of its manipulative tendencies and that any further delay in granting access to the materials might attract public odium.

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“INEC should therefore end its unpatriotic partisan shenanigans with the APC and immediately obey the Court of Appeal and grant the PDP and Atiku Abubakar access to the documents and materials and free itself from unholy entanglement with the APC against Nigerians”.

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