Fomer Governor of Lagos state, Bola Ahmed Tinubu Tinubu also said that three parties had joined to make a formidable APC to challenge the already strong PDP, but now INEC has merged with PDP to win overwhelmingly in 2015.
Tinubu was speaking yesterday in Lagos and berated INEC for its conduct of the PVC distribution. He said, “Just as we (APC) merged to form a formidable opposition party, they have merged with Jonathan to form a formidable rigging machine.
“This exercise is a colossal failure. I NEC has the responsibility to give us a date when the exercise would start which they did. They were the ones that picked the date. On the eve of the exercise, they announced they could only carry out the exercise in 11 Local Government Areas out of the 20 recognised by the Federal Government.
“Rather than outright boycott, we endured the frustration and appealed to the public to participate. Our field report and personal experiences indicated that the exercise in those 11 LGAs failed and it is unacceptable. In some instances, you didn’t find INEC and then in some, they did not start on time.”
Tinubu said if four months to the election, INEC had yet to put its house in order, it was safe to say that the commission could not conduct a free and fair election next year.
He also demanded INEC explain how and why it reduced the number of registers voters in Lagos state from 6.2 million to 4.8 million.
He said, “You cannot automatically, without a court of law, disqualify them, you can only suspend them and give them another opportunity to register.
To me, this exercise has failed, it is not acceptable, and we consider it as a rigging exercise. INEC has colluded with the presidency and the opposing party to rig the election from the data to the end.”
Fashola had also earlier blasted INEC chiefs for what they described as inexcusable behavior by the electoral body, demanding INEC account for the missing 1.4 million voters
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