INEC Is Trying To Derail Nigeria’s Democracy – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party has come out to raise the alarm that the Independent National Electoral Commission is making moves to prevent the party from obtaining evidence from the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System through obtaining a court order.

Its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba recently revealed this to the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, such a move is a clear recipe for disaster and a deliberate design by the commission to derail our democracy and trigger anarchy in the country.

PDP added that rather than being guided by the law, the INEC chairman decided to announce and declare results that were not transmitted directly from the Polling Units to INEC’s server/website.

His words, “Late on Monday at 10:10 PM, INEC in a move to prevent our party and candidate from obtaining necessary evidence as ordered by the Court, filed a motion requesting that it be allowed to reconfigure the BVAS machines and wipe off relevant information that our party and candidate require to prosecute our case at the presidential election tribunal.”

“It is a clear recipe for crisis and a deliberate design by the commission to derail our democracy and trigger anarchy in the country.”

“Instead of being guided by the law, the INEC chairman brazenly announced and declared results that were not transmitted directly from the Polling Units to INEC’s server/website while ignoring the objections and complaints raised during the collation in complete disregard to the provisions of the Electoral Act.”

“Despite the provocative act of the INEC chairman, the PDP, as a law-abiding party, approached the court and obtained an order directing INEC to, among other things, grant our party and candidate unrestrained access to carry out a forensic examination of the ballot papers, data forms, BVAS/and or card readers and all other necessary information, material and evidence to get redress for Nigerians at the Election Tribunal.”

“Apparently panicked by the order, INEC rushed to court to file a motion requesting the court to allow it reconfigure the BVAS devices with the view to erasing the information contained therein.”