Jonathan’s govt planning to manipulate poll results –APC

The All Progressives Congress on Sunday alerted Nigerians and the international community to plans by the Peoples Democratic Party, led by Goodluck Jonathan administration, to tamper with the results of Saturday’s elections and circumvent the people’s will.

The APC which said this in a statement in Lagos by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, warned that it had all the results from across the country.

It stated, ‘’The information that we have received since we issued our last statement is to the effect that the administration is holding clandestine meetings with security chiefs and others with the sole aim of altering or scuttling the results which they consider to be highly embarrassing and unpalatable, using malleable RECs (resident electoral commissioners).”

The APC warned that nothing but the authentic results held by the party agents and all other stakeholders would be acceptable to the party.

The party stated that whoever was planning to do otherwise should weigh its implication on the survival of the nation’s democracy.

The APC said the moves to manipulate the results were also being replicated in some of the states, including Bauchi where everything was being done to reverse the outcome.

It alleged that in Imo State, many aides of the Governor, Rochas Okorocha, were being brutalized and arrested in hordes.

But the PDP described as false and illogical, allegations by the APC that the Jonathan-led PDP administration was planning to alter the Saturday’s election results, using the military and security agents.

Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, who stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents on the telephone, said all the results were currently being collated at the various INEC offices across the country and would be difficult for the process to be altered by anyone.

He said, “Votes are collated at the polling units from where the result will be taken to the ward collation centre for compilation. This, in turn, would be taken to the local government collation centre and finally, to the state collation centre for onward transmission to the INEC headquarters.