Nationnewslead report that The attempt by the governorship candidate of the Young Progressives Party, YPP in Akwa Ibom State, Senator Bassey Akpan known as OBA to rig the Saturday 18, governorship election in the state using the Supervisory Presiding Officers, SPOs.
An SPO in the state who pleaded anonymity for fear of being haunted or attacked told our correspondent that OBA called all the SPOs who are officials of the Independent Nation Electoral Commission to a meeting on Tuesday evening and urged them to inflate the result for him.
He said after the meeting, OBA gave Fifty Thousand Naira (N50, 000) to each of them numbering about 170 and encouraged them to execute the deal with assurances that he would offer them more money thereafter.
According to him, “OBA called us for a meeting yesterday. He said we should do our best to deliver YPP, he said if the situation requires that we should manipulate the figures that we should go ahead to do it as we will be duly compensated. He gave everybody present the sum of N50,000 and promised to do more if we deliver our wards.”
Meanwhile, Senator Akpan who had in different fora accused INEC of colluding with the State government to rig the elections in favour of PDP had gone behind to perpetuate the allegation he falsely peddled against the electoral umpire and the state government.
It was gathered that he (OBA) organized some thugs that would cause violence in the wards known to be strong hold of other political parties especially the PDP so that there will be cancellation of results in the area.
A concerned indigene of the state, Iberedem Umoren in an interview expressed worry over the level of desperation exhibited by the YPP candidate and urged the people not to give in to the antics.
“We gathered that some areas he knew that PDP will likely win, he recruited some boys to cause violence, he wants to cause problem that will lead to the cancellation of the election in the areas.
“He is accusing the state government of working with INEC and on the other hand he is working with critical staff of INEC, that is the SPOs, who are always at the ward and local level. The hallmark of manipulation is done at the ward or local level.
“He wants to employ the method APC used to rig Peter Obi out because when INEC showed the results uploaded from BVAS, everything was obvious.” Umoren noted. Continue Reading
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