PDP raises alarm of plot by presidency to rig Kogi poll

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it has uncovered plot by the presidency to rig Saturday’s governorship election in Kogi State.
The party also alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari will give imprimatur to this plan when he visits Lokoja, the Kogi State capital this Wednesday to endorse the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Prince Abubakar Audu.

PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh on Sunday, said it has an incontrovertible evidence of a clandestine meetings involving the Presidency, the

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and some security forces wherein the agencies were ordered to use official and unofficial means necessary to ensure victory for the APC in the November 21 Kogi governorship election.
“We have incontrovertible records of separate meetings, late last week between the Presidency and the new INEC leadership as well as with some
top security officers, which were coordinated by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Engr. Babachir Lawal, who boasted that he has President Muhammadu Buhari’s orders to ensure that Kogi State is wrestled from the PDP by all means,” the statement disclosed.