It’ll Be Difficult For PDP To Operate Under A Ruling Party With Impunity- Secondus

The National Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has said that it was not easy for the party to operate under a ruling party whose understanding of democracy is “impunity, intimidation and coercion”.

Secondus made this known while receiving a team of Election, Party Monitoring Department of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at the PDP Abuja secretariat on Monday.

According to him, the 2019 elections demonstrated the height of electoral impunity that set the nation’s electoral development progressively backwards.

Secondus said: “We stand vindicated in the eyes of many electoral watchers as all our fears and apprehensions ahead of the elections came to fruition in the general election of February and March this year.

“The preceding governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states earlier and the latest being the November 16, 2019 gubernatorial election in Bayelsa and Kogi states.

“Despite a standing lawful court ruling that military should be kept at a distance during elections as secondary security, we have all watched how they not only took over the primary security role from the police, but also in some instances, dictated and even connived with some INEC officials.

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“Nigerians have watched how the electoral body, unable to control the military, relinquished their responsibility to them and still curiously went ahead to authenticate such fraud”.

Secondus,however called on INEC to immediately initiate moves for the amendment of the Electoral Act, with the view to legalising electronic voting and removing the influence of the military as primary security during elections.

He accused the electoral body of conniving with the APC to compromise the electoral process in the 2019 presidential election and governorship elections in Ekiti, Osun, Kano, Kogi and Bayelsa states.

The party chairman charged INEC to be at the forefront of the process to have legal frame work for the conduct of free, fair and credible elections.

In response, the leader of the INEC team, Mr. Musa Husunu, a Deputy Director in the Election and Party Monitoring Department, said that the team would take the PDP chairman’s message to the leadership of the electoral body.