Elections: Presidency dismisses PDP’s insinuation over meeting with INEC, police

The Presidency has said President Muhammadu Buhari’s
meeting with the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) and the police was geared towards
ensuring credible governorship elections in Kogi and
Bayelsa States.
A statement issued on Sunday by the President’s Senior
Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba
Shehu, dismissed Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP)
insinuation regarding the meeting.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that PDP had
alleged that the meeting was part of plans by the All
Progressives Congress (APC) to rig the forthcoming
governorship elections in the two states.
“The president called the meeting cited by the PDP to
warn, in particular, INEC and the police, to prepare to give
the nation a credible election.
“He said he expected nothing short of a free, fair and
credible election. He said he had suffered election
manipulation in 2003, 2007 and 2011 and would not like to
have any Nigerian go through that again. He also warned
against the intimidation of voters in any way and vowed
that he was prepared to move with all the forces available
to him against anyone who undermines the rights of any
citizen.
“The meeting was short and straight to the point. It ended
after five minutes. Furthermore, he asked the Vice
President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, if he had anything to say
and Osinbajo had added nothing to what the President
said,’’ the statement quoted Shehu as saying.
The presidential spokesman advised Nigerians to be wary
of PDP’s fruitless attempts to destroy the national
institutions President Buhari was determined to rebuild.
“They started with the courts, then the EFCC, then on to
the police and now they are on the one-week old INEC.
“When will PDP allow our national institutions to do their
job?’’ he wondered.

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