Buhari has Appointed his ‘daughter’ as INEC Chairman & We believe There will not be Fairness. - PDP

THE Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday said it would reject any election conducted by the Acting Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Mrs. Amina Zakari.

Metuh who spoke when he paid a visit to the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute in Abuja said;

“It will be very difficult to accept any result of the election conducted by Amina Zakari. It will be difficult for the PDP to accept result of election if we lose under Zakari,”
“We have INEC and the idea is that people heading it should be above board, but the present ruling party has appointed the ‘daughter’ of the President to head the position.
“There is nowhere in the world where such has happened, a person who has a relationship with the President.
“I am drawing the attention of the IRI to this. Buhari has appointed his ‘daughter’ as INEC chairman; we believe there will not be fairness.”the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh, said.

The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in reaction to the PDP position, said;

“Under our law, elections are not invalidated just because one of the 29 political parties has refused to recognise a commission properly constituted by the law.
“If the PDP says it won’t recognise the head of the commission, who was even appointed into the commission by the PDP government, we can only wish it well.”
The PDP spokesman also decried Buhari’s style of leadership, alleging that the President had been sidelining PDP governors in running the affairs of the country.
He said that under Jonathan, governors from the opposition parties always accompanied the former President on foreign trips.

He alleged that Buhari had been working hard to silence the opposition by “harassing, muscling and intimidating them.”
He cited the issue of the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, adding that the Presidency had been using the security apparatus to intimidate the deputy senate president.
He said,
“I want to alert the international community on issues that, if they are not handled very well, may truncate our democracy. We have witnessed a remarkable change in the past few days.
“We encourage freedom and in just two months in power, we have witnessed organised witch-hunt by the leadership of the APC in trying to muscle our people.”

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