The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the recently concluded area council poll in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, as a shame, saying that the Federal Government, officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and security operatives manoeuvred the elections in favour of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Chairmanship candidate of the PDP in Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC, Bitrus Tanko Kura, disclosed that it was sad that the government that wanted to fight corruption to conduct “such a shameful election.”
Kura spoke after candidate of the APC in the poll was declared winner by INEC on Thursday. He said such an election had never occurred in the history of FCT.
He accused chieftains of the APC of sharing money to induce voters and that security agents were used to snatch ballot boxes at some polling units.
According to him, Secretary General of the Federation, SGF, Babachir David Lawal, had no business monitoring the elections.
“I keep wondering why the SGF could abandon his job and come and monitor election at a local level like ours when he has so many problems on his table to attend to,” he remarked.
“These are people that made the law, they are the same people breaking it,” he said.
But reacting, FCT APC publicity secretary, Usman Adagi, informed City News that there could not have been a better organised election than the one held on Saturday and Wednesday.
“If the federal might, INEC, security were to be used, of course there won’t have been a supplementary election. APC would have been declared on Saturday but INEC stood their ground and did what they had to do,” he said.
