BUJA – FORMER Deputy National
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has raised
alarm that the nation’s democracy was heading towards a total collapse if the
conduct and style of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC under
the leadership of Prof Mahmood Yakubu were not checked and curtailed.
Prince Uche Secondus Prince Uche
Secondus, Acting National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
According
to him, with the way and manner the present INEC has been conducting its
activities, it has become very obvious that the new INEC Chairman lacks what he
termed, the wherewithal to run the Commission, adding that it has also become
imperative that he must be guided if Nigeria’s democracy must be protected.
He said that from Kogi, Bayelsa to Rivers, Imo
and Edo states the conduct of INEC has shown crass incompetence as it has
failed glaringly to conduct a free, fair and credible election, just as he
called on all democratic watchers to stand up against the present INEC that he
alleged to have shown clearly that its mission is to destroy this democracy by
continuously thwarting the will of the people. In a statement he personally
signed and released in Abuja yesterday, Secondus noted that recent events
involving INEC shows clearly that the commission’s integrity was being
challenged. Secondus said, “events surrounding the electoral body since Prof
Yakubu took over from Prof Attahiru Jega leaves one with no other conclusion
than that it is not only incompetent but obviously a bias agency designed to
dance the music of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC rather than that of
Nigerians. “From Kogi, Bayelsa to Rivers, Imo and Edo states the conduct of
this INEC has shown crass incompetence as it has failed glaringly to conduct a
free, fair and credible election. At every step on the way the commission has
compromised its independence by conniving with agents of the APC to manipulate
electoral process and undermine the will of the people.” Secondus described as
most unfortunate the fact that the commission ” is being pushed about with
impunity by the ruling APC that is a huge beneficiary of a sound and credible
electoral process put in place by the PDP. ” The development in Rivers state
where some APC agents were caught printing ballot papers has exposed INEC and
wondered where the printers got the code number and all the security link if
they were not in league with the Commission. He calls on President Muhammedu
Buhari to condemn the act and denounce APC’s desperation for power. ” The
failure of INEC to conduct credible poll all these while has far reaching
implication in the sustaintenance of democracy in the country as well as
ensuring national stability. “Finally, I call on all democratic watchers to
stand up against this INEC that has shown clearly that its mission is to
destroy this democracy by continuously thwarting the will of the people.”
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