How APC plans to rig Lagos governorship poll – PDP

 
The Jimi Agbaje Campaign Organisation has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of plot to rig Saturday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections in Lagos State.

Agbaje’s camp cited bribing of security officers and electoral officials, cancellation of unduly voided votes, intimidation of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) supporters, hijacking of ballot boxes, stuffing of voting boxes, deprivation and delaying of electoral officers and materials to PDP strongholds, and importation of mercenary voters from neighbouring states as part of the plots.
A statement by Felix Oboagwina, Agbaje’s Director of Publicity, said the Lagos State government met workers on Tuesday, and warned that it had posted to the polling units, agents who would spy on and report civil servants who voted against the APC governorship candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode.

According to him, “Many of these plans have been fashioned in addition to those deployed for the grand rigging that took place at the Presidential and National Assembly elections on March 28, and they are being perfected for April 11.”
On the voiding of votes, the statement alleged that the huge volume of voided votes, pointing out that many of them belonged to PDP and could have been salvaged as authentic votes.
It said the mass importation of ghost or “ECOMOG” voters from Ekiti, Osun and Ondo states has commenced and that the APC was paying N10,000 per mercenary elector from the three states, from a central purse in Osogbo, the Osun State capital.
Oboagwina said information at the Jimi Agbaje Campaign organisation’s disposal revealed the infiltration of field officers of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by card-carrying members of the APC.

“The rival party’s loyalists worked as electoral officers in the last election, they mounted polling units and collation units at the ward, local government and state levels and they made a lot of difference in the result that ended up favouring their paymasters,” he said.
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“The rival party’s loyalists worked as electoral officers in the last election, they mounted polling units and collation units at the ward, local government and state levels and they made a lot of difference in the result that ended up favouring their paymasters,” he said.
Continuing he said, “Money is being amassed to induce electoral officers, including ad hoc and bona fide staffers, manning the polling units, ward, local government and state levels.
“In places like Ibeju-Lekki, APC has been camping NYSC members in hotels and bribing them to assist help falsifying figures.
“APC has planned to get its allies within INEC at the local governments to deliberately delay distribution of materials to PDP strongholds and places with high density of non-indigenes.
“In the last elections, constituencies where PDP recorded high votes had the results upturned and in the repeat polls, APC was illegally assisted to win.
 “This will happen again as it happened on that day too, polling unit results would be recorded on temporary sheets and changed at the collation stage”.
g he said, “Money is being amassed to induce electoral officers, including ad hoc and bona fide staffers, manning the polling units, ward, local government and state levels.
“In places like Ibeju-Lekki, APC has been camping NYSC members in hotels and bribing them to assist help falsifying figures.
“APC has planned to get its allies within INEC at the local governments to deliberately delay distribution of materials to PDP strongholds and places with high density of non-indigenes.
“In the last elections, constituencies where PDP recorded high votes had the results upturned and in the repeat polls, APC was illegally assisted to win.