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PDP raises alarm over INEC's plan to register 4000 APC members as independent observers in Ekiti, Osun governorship elections


The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), of recruiting 4,000 All Progressives Congress (APC) members as independent observers to manipulate the electoral process, endorse irregularities, approve fictitious results and subvert the will of the electorates in favour of the APC.

Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary, made this allegation in a statement released on Tuesday.

The opposition party said, “ INEC has secretly registered 4000 APC members as independent observers for the July 14 and September 22 governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states respectively.

“PDP wants INEC to note that the people of Ekiti and Osun states are already aware of plots to use the illegal observers to manipulate the electoral process, endorse irregularities, approve fictitious results and subvert the will of the electorate in favour of the APC, and are ready to resist such.

“INEC, in this design, should not forget that these states are immutable strongholds of the PDP; that the citizens are politically sophisticated and will in no way hesitate to confront, with all energy available in a democracy, any attempt by anybody to sabotage the election.

 PDP boasted that it has the largest demography of genuine followership and unprecedented mass appeal across Ekiti State, particularly due to the performance of Governor Ayo Fayose, affirming that the party has the most popular candidate in June 14 election.

The national leadership of the PDP noted its structures across all the electoral wards in Ekiti and Osun states have been put at alert, vowing not to allow anybody to use any means whatsoever to manipulate the electoral process.

The opposition party cautioned the alleged illegal observers to steer clear of Ekiti and Osun states and also to desist from testing the will of the people.

It also charged the INEC Chairman to immediately douse the tension by instantly withdrawing the illegal observers and constituting a process of selecting new and genuine observers with full participation of all major stakeholders, particularly the political parties contesting in the elections.


INEC spokesperson was not available to react to this allegation, as at press time.

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