Bauchi: Dogara reveals INEC, security agencies’ plot
The Speaker, in a press statement on Friday, stated that emerging facts show that the Bauchi Resident Electoral Commissioner , Ibrahim Abdullahi, is working in tandem with the governor of Bauchi State, Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar, to use all available means to tilt the governorship election results in favour of the incumbent governor.
Dogara added that the plot to conduct a supplementary election was conceived by the REC, who is in cohort with the governor, to provide an avenue for votes to be rigged to increase the number of votes that governor garnered in the previous election, thereby increasing his chances of winning an election he has already lost.
“The world must also note that the enemies of Bauchi people have stalled the collation of Tafawa Balewa votes to allow Governor MA Abubakar the opportunity through the illegal Saturday’s supplementary elections to fraudulently raise enough votes to cover the margin between him and Senator Bala Mohammed.
“So, Bauchi people and, indeed, the world should know that the chief facilitator of this evil plot is no other person than the Bauchi REC Ibrahim Abdullahi in collaboration with rogue elements within the security services. “The declaration by Bauchi REC that he will proceed with supplementary elections in some units where elections were cancelled when the main elections is yet to be concluded in Bauchi state in contravention of the provisions of Section 26 and 53 of the Electoral Act and paragraphs 33 & , 34 of the Regulations and Guidelines for the conduct of elections issued by INEC and sections 26 and 53 of the Electoral Act.
“Cancellation due to over-voting is supposed to be punitive and such units should never be rewarded with the opportunity for supplementary elections as doing so is akin to allowing a student caught cheating in an exams to rewrite the exams.
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