El-Rufai Exposes PDP Plot To Rig Election
In less than four days to the gubernatorial elections in
Kaduna State, the All Progressives Congress (APC) guber candidate,
Malam Nasir El-Rufai has exposed plots by the ruling Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) to rig Saturday’s governorship polls.
The
APC guber candidate said the PDP is currently doing everything possible
to undermine Permanent Voters’ Card (PVC) and Card Reader device in
order to ensure massive rigging in the state, The Nation reports.
El-Rufai, who who featured in a Freedom Radio Kaduna breakfast programme ‘Barka da Warhaka’ on Tuesday said the PDP is recruiting and arming thugs to disrupt Saturday’s election.
The APC candidate further stated that the PDP led government has imported armed thugs in perpetrating rigging of the election, despite threatening dealings with some unprincipled Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) personnel to aid their sinister motive.
“We got credible intelligence and alerted the police, military, DSS and INEC. They have been running from pillar to pillar in the name of thwarting effectiveness of Card Readers. They adopted using of armed thugs to intimidate voters and carry out ballot snatching and stuffing of boxes for declaration. They planned to withhold result sheets and other plots. They met with some security personnel and sealed deals and we submitted all the details with empirical evidences to the authorities. And so, we are watching closely and will not give them a chance,” he said.
El-Rufai, however, warned that no one be allowed to perpetrate crisis in the state and go scold free, pointing out that election is not war or fight, rather it is supposed to be a contest.
He assured that no one will escape prosecution if he incite crisis in the state, adding that the coming government of General Muhammadu Buhari will follow all cases to the end.
“We have reports of how some serving commissioners and a senior staff of the governor are arming thugs, and like I said we have documented all these and submitted. They cannot intimidate citizens of our state; the people of Kaduna state have right to decide their future and no amount of money will work, no force, no manipulation of religion. Let them learn from presidential election. Did Sambo and his gang not bring millions? Did it work? Did Yero not commit state and local government resources? Did it work?” El-Rufai asked.
El-Rufai was a former Director General of The Bureau of Public Enterprises, the head privatisation agency in Nigeria and also a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja from July 16, 2003 to May 29, 2007.
His influence with the government started under the transition government of General Abdulsalami Abubakar, where he served as an adviser in the Transition government.
El-Rufai was reportedly in self-exile during the tenure of President Umaru Yar’Adua. In November 2009, he stated making plans to return to Nigeria despite the high level of risk he will be exposed to.
The governorship candidate who has been an active critic of the President Goodluck Jonathan-led PDP administration was recently pictured collecting N20 from ordinary people in a bid to fund his governorship campaign in Kaduna State.
APC governorship candidate in Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai
El-Rufai, who who featured in a Freedom Radio Kaduna breakfast programme ‘Barka da Warhaka’ on Tuesday said the PDP is recruiting and arming thugs to disrupt Saturday’s election.
The APC candidate further stated that the PDP led government has imported armed thugs in perpetrating rigging of the election, despite threatening dealings with some unprincipled Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) personnel to aid their sinister motive.
“We got credible intelligence and alerted the police, military, DSS and INEC. They have been running from pillar to pillar in the name of thwarting effectiveness of Card Readers. They adopted using of armed thugs to intimidate voters and carry out ballot snatching and stuffing of boxes for declaration. They planned to withhold result sheets and other plots. They met with some security personnel and sealed deals and we submitted all the details with empirical evidences to the authorities. And so, we are watching closely and will not give them a chance,” he said.
El-Rufai, however, warned that no one be allowed to perpetrate crisis in the state and go scold free, pointing out that election is not war or fight, rather it is supposed to be a contest.
He assured that no one will escape prosecution if he incite crisis in the state, adding that the coming government of General Muhammadu Buhari will follow all cases to the end.
“We have reports of how some serving commissioners and a senior staff of the governor are arming thugs, and like I said we have documented all these and submitted. They cannot intimidate citizens of our state; the people of Kaduna state have right to decide their future and no amount of money will work, no force, no manipulation of religion. Let them learn from presidential election. Did Sambo and his gang not bring millions? Did it work? Did Yero not commit state and local government resources? Did it work?” El-Rufai asked.
El-Rufai was a former Director General of The Bureau of Public Enterprises, the head privatisation agency in Nigeria and also a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja from July 16, 2003 to May 29, 2007.
His influence with the government started under the transition government of General Abdulsalami Abubakar, where he served as an adviser in the Transition government.
El-Rufai was reportedly in self-exile during the tenure of President Umaru Yar’Adua. In November 2009, he stated making plans to return to Nigeria despite the high level of risk he will be exposed to.
The governorship candidate who has been an active critic of the President Goodluck Jonathan-led PDP administration was recently pictured collecting N20 from ordinary people in a bid to fund his governorship campaign in Kaduna State.
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