Investigate, Prosecute INEC Chairman, Yakubu – PDP Tells Security Agencies

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged the Department of State Services (DSS), Economic And Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to investigate and prosecute the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu.

The PDP charged the security agencies to probe Yakubu over his alleged complicity in the criminal manipulation and alteration of election results.

The national publicity secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, speaking at a press conference on Friday at the Party’s national secretariat, said the probe and prosecution should be a natural follow-up to the INEC chairman’s resignation from office.

He said,

“Prof. Mahmood Yakubu’s exit as Chairman of INEC will be the first step towards sanitizing the Electoral Commission and restoring the confidence of Nigerians, especially as the nation prepares for the rescheduled March 18, 2023, Governorship and State 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.

“Furthermore, the PDP demands that the Inspector General of Police and the Director General of the Directorate of State Services (DSS) immediately commence investigations into the electoral violations and manipulations by INEC with the view to prosecuting Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and other officials of the Commission for electoral offences.”

Ologunagba furthered that the PDP had reviewed the widely-condemned infractions, brazen violation of the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2022, and alteration of election results by the Yakubu-led INEC.

According to him, the Party has concluded that it was aimed at subverting the will of Nigerians during the Presidential and National Assembly elections.

“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.”

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