FOR THE RECORDS : APC PROTEST LETTER TO INEC ... See full content of the letter here
28th November 2013
The Chairman,
Independent National Electoral Commission,
Plot 436 Zambezi Crescent,
Maitama District,
FCT, Abuja,
NIGERIA
Dear Sir,
Re: ANAMBRA STATE GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION: A CALL TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY.
The above subject refers. On the 16th November 2013, the good people of
Anambra State woke up with great aspiration and expectation to cast
their votes to elect a new Governor for the state.
Prior to the
date for the Election, the ominous signs of an election that was
pre-determined to favour specific interests against the run of the
electorate support were already clear.
When our great party, the All
Progressives Congress (APC) noticed these foreboding signs; we
immediately drew the attention of the electoral umpire and the whole
world to them.
The issues, which our party complained about
through official correspondences and various press releases, are
several. These include:
The unholy conspiracy between the electoral
umpire (INEC) and the presidency/PDP to rig the Elections to rig the
election in favor of APGA.
Mass disenfranchisement of voters
through use of multiple voters registers, Deliberate delay in the
distribution of electoral materials in the opposition strongholds,
The disappearance of electoral officials and result sheets meant for opposition strongholds,
The sudden creation of about 3,00 voting units, of which our pollingAgents did not receive Tags,
The unconstitutional 22-hour curfew, which was a ploy to give the
riggers the leeway to actualize their rigging plans while the vigilance
of the Electorate was inhibited by the curfew already in place.
The unlawful deployment and use of the military during election and purely civil activities.
Our complaint about the Anambra Resident Electoral Commissioner,
Professor Chukwuemeka Onukogu and other Federal Commissioners who had
proven to be biased through his conduct in previous elections.
Despite INEC getting information of our complaints, we were doubly assured that our fears were founded.
The elections that were superintended over by your commission was
grossly below any acceptable standard, whether local or international.
The deliberate tactic to prevent democracy and serve the two parties’
interests, PDP and particularly APGA in this case cannot be democratic
and in the voters’ interest.
And the only face saving decision
for you and your commission in this circumstance is to cancel the
charade, which you want to reinforce of the electorate as a credible
election.
We cannot gloat over the dangerous signs and the
gathering storms that portend a coup d’etat against the yearnings and
aspirations of our people.
The reasons why we cannot accept this infamy of your commission as regards the Anambra election are as follows.
The Manipulation of the October 12th Delta Central Senatorial District bye- election.
The refusal of INEC to conclude the election started since July 29th
2013 in the re-run election to the Imo State of Assembly in Oguta, in
spite of the fact that there was a clear winner.
The abnormality displayed in the State House of Assembly by-election in Ringim Constituency of Jigawa state.
The danger that the shenanigans, the conspiracy and the subversion of the will of the people signifies to our democracy.
The question our generations’ yet unborn will ask and their judgment if
we refuse to do what is right to arrest the drift of our nation to the
straits of destruction which have dire consequence for our people.
A flashback into our political history has revealed that the subversion
of the will of the people has always ended in a catastrophe for our
nation, thereby drawing back our quest for development.
The
collapse of the first and second republic political experiments are
pointer to the dangerous path we are treading once again.
We,
in the All Progressives Congress (APC) cannot be cowed, for this is a
time that calls for all brave men and women to rise to the desperate
call of the silent majority to rescue our nation from the assured
perdition of
a PDP led government at the Federal level.
If you
recall, the 2011 National Assembly Elections were cancelled due to the
failure of your commission to achieve the right parameters for a
credible election. Our position is that if you could cancel an election
that has already commenced and voting was ongoing due to flaws in that
electoral process, your assertion that you do not have the authority to
cancel an election that you have acknowledged as flawed and “messed up
and sabotaged” cannot be sustained.
The observed flaws in the election were deliberately planned as a
strategic conspiracy of the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to rig the Anambra
Governorship election in favour of their surrogate party, the PDP
faction of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA).
With your
acknowledgement of these far reaching vitiating factors, your
grandstanding to uphold the outcome of the flawed election and your
haste to conduct what you call a supplementary election, without first
correcting the innate flaws in the electoral process is unacceptable.
We have lost confidence in the ability of INEC as it stands today to
organize a free, fair and transparent election anywhere in Nigeria if
the Anambra style is repeated.
OUR REQUEST
An outright
cancellation of the Anambra Election, having been marred by serious
irregularities and non-compliance with the Electoral Act.
INEC
should discard the present fake multiple voters register and produce one
authentic voters register that will not disenfranchise any voter and be
published 30 days before any election can take place in Anambra state.
The suspension and prosecution of all officials of the commission who
have ever been indicted for electoral perfidy to purge the commission of
such compromised officials.
The immediate redeployment and
investigation of the current Anambra Resident Electoral Commissioner,
Professor Chukwuemeka Onukogu.
We, as a party, we demand
honesty and transparency! If our requests above are not acceded, it will
confirm that Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is
deliberately (by either gross incompetence
or more suspicious means) interfering in democracy.
Finally, we demand for the outright cancellation of the manipulated November 16th Gubernatorial election in Anambra State.
Yours Sincerely,
Chief Bisi Akande,
National Chairman,
All Progressives Congress (APC)
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