The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that the Independent Nation­al Electoral Commission (INEC) under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu was compromised to rig the 2023 presidential election.

The party further said that INEC under Prof. Yakubu delib­erately sabotaged the uploading and transmission of results di­rectly from the Polling Units to give room for the criminal muti­lation, alteration and switching of election results across the nation in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Addressing newsmen on Friday in Abuja, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Hon. Debo Ologunagba, who said that the commission violated the Electoral Act, asked the INEC Chairman to resign

The party, which charged the police and the Department of State Services (DSS) to investigate Prof. Yakubu for alleged electoral offences, demanded international sanction against him for under­mining democracy.

“The Peoples Democratic Par­ty (PDP) has further reviewed the widely-condemned infractions, brazen violation of the provi­sions of the Electoral Act, 2022 and criminal manipulation and alteration of election results by the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to subvert the Will of Nigerians in the Feb­ruary 25, 2023 Presidential and National Assembly Elections.

“The PDP has also reviewed the latest scheme by INEC to reconfigure the BVAS devices, erase and destroy evidence of its manipulation of the Presi­dential election, deny Nigerians and political parties, especially our Party and Candidate access to relevant information required to prosecute our case at the Pres­idential Election Tribunal.

“From all indications, the INEC under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu was compromised to rig the election by brazenly violating the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022 as well as INEC’s Regu­lations, Guidelines and Manual issued for the election.

“It is also obvious that the Commission under Prof. Mah­mood Yakubu deliberately sab­otaged the uploading and trans­mission of results directly from the Polling Units to give room for the criminal mutilation, alter­ation and switching of election results across the nation in favour of the APC as now abundantly ex­posed in the pictorial and video evidence of compromised results sheets in many parts of the Coun­try,” the party said.

The party noted that several evidence abounds in States across the six Geo-Political Zones of the Country where winning figures lawfully scored by the PDP were switched in favour of the APC; where results sheet from polling centers won by the PDP were de­stroyed and replaced with fake results sheets in which APC was allocated unearned winning fig­ures.

“This further explains why the INEC Chairman rushed to an­nounce and declare manipulated results that were not transmitted directly from the Polling Units to INEC’s Server/Website and ignored the objections and com­plaints raised during the collation of results in deliberate violation of the provisions of Section 64 (4) (a) and (b), 64 (6) (a)-(d), and 65 (1) (c) of the Electoral Act. 2022.