The Ogun State Governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) Prince Gboyega Isiaka, on has said that he has uncovered “clandestine and well orchestrated” plots to manipulate the March 2 governorship election results in the state.
Isiaka alleged that the plots in four folds would entail unleashing thugs to instigate violence in many polling booths, compromise the collation of election results, declaring the polls results inconclusive and order a rerun in premeditated polling booths.
The two – time governorship contestant who made the disclosure while addressing reporters in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, called on the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof Abdulganiyu Raji, and his team “not to lend themselves to the sinister plot of these anti democratic elements.”
Although he did not name the people or political party plotting to rig the polls, he however, expressed his party’s readiness to defend their votes.
He took to the cleaners Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s government, saying that the good people of Ogun cannot afford another four or eight years of “a failed rebuilding mission in any guise.”
“At this juncture, l wish to – and on behalf of our party – raise an alarm about the clandestine and well-orchestrated plan by known opposition political parties – to manipulate the March 2nd 2019 gubernatorial election. In the last few weeks, we have been inundated with unimpeachable information and security reports about the grand plot by these elements to deliberately compromise that election.
“They have hatched four different rigging plans. Their first plan is to unleash thugs to precipitate violence in many polling booths and compromise the collation of election results up to close figures and push it to a point of having overall results declared as inconclusive (in a first run scenario) and then force a rerun in premeditated polling booths within a particular senatorial district; where they then hope to cement the plot by outright intimidation and harassment of our party members or sympathetic electorates.
“The recent controversial Osun state governorship election comes to memory. The full details and mode of operation of implementing these plans will be kept away from these conference for both security and strategic reasons. However, we must state that these grand plot is their response to an apparent defeat at the polls.”
