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PDPParty demands resignation of INEC chairman

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh who briefed newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, also rejected INEC’s call on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to replace its governorship candidate for the Kogi poll.

Olisa Metuh 
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has demanded immediate resignation of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Malam Abubakar Malami and the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh who briefed newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja, also rejected INEC’s call on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to replace its governorship candidate for the Kogi poll.
He said that the AGF should vacate his office for "hurrying and misleading’’ INEC into arriving at an "unconstitutional decision’’ to allow the APC substitute its candidate in the inconclusive Kogi election.
Metuh said that PDP was `shocked’ that INEC could allow itself to succumb to the antics of unlawful directive of the AGF to substitute a candidate in the middle of the ballot process.
Metuh said that the PDP was taken aback why INEC, a statutory body with full complements of technical hands in its legal department would wait for directives of external party on the matter.
"Consequently, the PDP rejected in its entirety, the move to circumvent the laws and ambush the yet-to-be concluded election by introducing a practice that is completely alien to the constitution and the electoral act.
"The clear implication of this action of the AGF and INEC is that the APC would be fielding two different governorship candidates in the on-going Kogi election.
"This means that INEC would be transferring votes cast for late Prince Abubakar Audu to another candidate, scenarios that have no place in the constitution of the land,’’ he said.
Metuh said that since the PDP in respect for the dead, had since Sunday refrained from making comments on the Kogi election, the party could no longer maintain such in the face of the `barefaced attack’ on Nigeria’s democracy.
He said that INEC under the leadership of Yakubu had shown itself as `partisan, morally bankrupt and obviously incapable’ of conducting a credible election.
"In view of the foregoing therefore, the PDP demands the immediate resignation of the INEC chairman.
"The call is important as the nation’s democracy cannot afford to be left in the hands of an electoral umpire that cannot exert its independence and the sanctity of the electoral process.’’
He said that the PDP National Working Committee had summoned an emergency National Caucus meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 25 to take decision on the ``obvious threat to Nigeria’s democracy.’


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