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Consequence of rigging Osun election will be terrible -APC
 
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Fri, 8 Aug 2014   ||   Nigeria,
 

As electorates in Osun State decides who become their next governor, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has warned that the consequences of the alleged plan to rig the osun state governorship election in the state by the Peoples Democratic Party will be terrible .

The national chairman disclosed this on Thursday at a news conference on the alleged plan to manipulate Saturday’s poll in favour of the PDP.

According to him, the rigging plans were contained in two documents leaked in the hands of the APC with another plan B that if the rigging plan fails, they would disrupt the whole process by causing anarchy in the state.

In the statement, the national chairman said the plan was been carried out by the People’s Democratic Party in conjunction with some corrupt element in INEC without the notice of Jega

He said, “Jega is sitting on an iceberg and he does not know what is under. I sympathise with him. The consequences of rigging this election will be undesirable.”

He said, “We have uncovered a secret document marked ‘’Highly Confidential,’’ that contains a meticulous outline of plans to rig the election, polling unit by polling unit, using pre-programmed ballot papers already designed and thumb printed with vanishing ink in favor of PDP.”

The APC gave the breakdown of the self-allotted figures as contained in the document as follows: “Atakumosa-East (10,000); Atakumosa-West (10,000), Ayedaade (15,000), Ayedire (10,000), Boluwaduro (5,000); Boripe (10,000); Ede-North (10,130); Ede-South (10,000); Egbedore (10,000); Ejigbo (15,000); Ife-Central (35,000); Ifedayo (7,000); Ife-East (33,018); Ifelodun (15,000) and Ife-North (20,000).

“Others listed in the rigging document are: Ife-South (20,000); Ila (10,000); Ilesa-East (10,000); Ilesa-West (10,340); Irepodun (10,007); Irewole (20,105); Isokan (10,000); Iwo (15,000); Obokun (10,203); Odo-Otin (10,107); Ola-Oluwa (5,070); Olorunda (15,000); Oriade (10,000); Orolu (7,936 and Osogbo (28,000).”

But the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwa, in a swift reaction said the claim by the APC was unfounded and baseless

Olaoluwa said the APC was afraid because they know that the people of Osun state are behind Senator Omisore.

He said, “If they have any document prepared by the PDP to rig, why can’t they publish it? Does it mean they do not have money to do so?

 

 

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