Revealed: How PLASIEC Allegedly Paid Presiding Officers, Returning Officers, Party Agents To Signed And Thumbed Print For Them Ahead of Election Tribunal
Yakubu Busari
Information available to this medium indicates that the Plateau State Independent Electoral commission PLASIEC, has allegedly summoned all the Presiding officers, Agents and Returning Officers that participated in last Local Government Council election to accomplish the task of thumb printing and signing of all the forms abandoned across the 17 local government councils in order to perfect the allegedly rigged LGAs polls, so as to use all those that signed as witness at the election Tribunal.
Information available revealed Chairmen invited them to PLASIEC headquarters and allegedly paid them a huge amount of money to help sign all documents where most of them were sighted jumping in and out of the PLASIEC headquarters.
According to a source, the aggrieved People Democratic Party, PDP, agents who were not paid after the council polls were the first group to arrive the PLASIEC office and were seen smiling out of the office to enter inside their vehicles which were parked in front of PLASIEC office.
Meanwhile speaking, Plateau PDP Chairman, Damishi Sango said; “I have warned people to be aware of this charade called Local Government Election where they abandoned voting materials in the councils and PLASIEC Boss Hon Ntung Ari gave an invitation to returning officers, presiding officers, and agents of the political parties to perfect the process of the alleged rigging.
“They announced the results, which are fake; the APC in Plateau and Lalong should know that they are in darkness because we are calling on APC to know that all the results that they are trying to change we are all aware.
Sango said; “when I see Governor Lalong canvassing for his reelection bid, I pity him, oh Lalong, Oh Lalong you don’t deserve a second term in office.”
Speaking he said PLASIEC has no master plan to rig the election meaning they were forced by some persons to do, as he said if they do, some people that resigned, a board member and a commissioner that resigned, wouldn’t have resigned from the work, where hey stated that they can’t be part of this mess where the APC is destroying this nascent democracy.
“We are prepared to claim our victory at the election tribunal because of the facts we have before us is enough to nail them, that is why they are using paying these agents to come and thumbprint for them, but they have forgotten that the Police have all the results.”
Hon Sango condemned in its totality how the PLASIEC chairman is plotting to perfect presidential election, they both got this idea from the above to use Plateau State as a test and experiment, and if it works they are going to make use of it.
“It would be recalled that PLASIEC conducted elections in 13 local governments where 4LGAs are still waiting to be conducted.”
Meanwhile, the chairman of Plateau PDP, Hon Damishi Sango has advised that Nigerians should be careful with the new tactics of APC’s plan is to use Plateau State as a testing ground ahead of 2019 general polls.