Jonathan’s govt planning to manipulate poll results –APC

The All Progressives Congress on
Sunday alerted Nigerians and the
international community to plans
by the Peoples Democratic Party,
led by Goodluck Jonathan
administration, to tamper with the
results of Saturday’s elections and
circumvent the people’s will.
The APC which said this in a
statement in Lagos by its National
Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, warned that it had all
the results from across the country.
It stated, ‘’The information that we
have received since we issued our
last statement is to the effect that
the administration is holding
clandestine meetings with security
chiefs and others with the sole aim
of altering or scuttling the results
which they consider to be highly
embarrassing and unpalatable,
using malleable RECs (resident
electoral commissioners).”
The APC warned that nothing but
the authentic results held by the
party agents and all other
stakeholders would be acceptable
to the party.
The party stated that whoever was
planning to do otherwise should
weigh its implication on the
survival of the nation’s democracy.
The APC said the moves to
manipulate the results were also
being replicated in some of the
states, including Bauchi where
everything was being done to
reverse the outcome.
It alleged that in Imo State, many
aides of the Governor, Rochas
Okorocha, were being brutalized
and arrested in hordes.
But the PDP described as false and
illogical, allegations by the APC that
the Jonathan-led PDP
administration was planning to
alter the Saturday’s election
results, using the military and
security agents.
Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief
Olisa Metuh, who stated this in an
interview with one of our
correspondents on the telephone,
said all the results were currently
being collated at the various INEC
offices across the country and
would be difficult for the process to
be altered by anyone.
He said, “Votes are collated at the
polling units from where the result
will be taken to the ward collation
centre for compilation. This, in turn,
would be taken to the local
government collation centre and
finally, to the state collation centre
for onward transmission to the INEC
headquarters.