resist any attempt to rig the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti
State, despite the "machination by the All Progressives Congress (APC)
working with some compromised Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) officials and security agencies."
PDP restates that the "will of the people is stronger than the
machinations of evil-minded persons, who are toying with the
determination of the people for a free and fair electioneering."
In a statement by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP warned that
INEC officials working with agents of the APC to compromise the
process were brazenly risking the "legitimate wrath of the people of
Ekiti State in their iron-cast resolve to ensure that nobody subverts
their will in this election."
PDP said the people of Ekiti State are, "already aware of the
clandestine meetings between known INEC officials and APC agents,
including those held at the Ondo state Government House, Akure, where
plots were hatched to use INEC's ICT Department to pre-load card
readers and input false results, as well as cloning unclaimed
Permanent Voter Cards (PVC) to superimpose pictures of their members
from other states."
The opposition party cautioned the alleged compromised INEC officers
and their, "allies in the APC and those they planned to import from
other states, to note that their tracks and footprints are all bare
and that the people of Ekiti state are already at alert and ready to
stop them on their trails with every potency available to them under
the law."
The statement added, "What the APC and their cohorts in INEC fail to
note is that Ekiti is a contiguous state where every indigene and
residents know and can identify one another other as individuals and
families and that as such there is no way in which strangers imported
from other states can be allowed to sneak in and participate in their
election.
"Let it be known to all that the PDP is fully mobilized for the July
14 election. The people of Ekiti state are fully rallied to vigilance
at every polling unit, every collation center as well as every exit
and entry points in their respective areas across the state to ensure
that nobody subverts their collective will.
"We restate the fact, clearly known both to INEC and the APC, that
Ekiti state is a stronghold of the PDP and that the people are solidly
behind the PDP, particularly due to the sterling performance of
Governor Ayo Fayose in developing the state in all spheres of lives.
"The APC and their rejected candidate should, therefore, end their
desperation to forcefully take over the state as no amount of
machination, intimidation, threats or even arrests and detention can
subjugate the people of Ekiti state, on any score, let alone, on their
governorship election."
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