‘Help, Electoral Commission Wants To Disenfranchise Us’

The Plateau State Chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP).has raised the alarm that the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission (PLASIEC) is planning to prevent it from participating in the October 9, local government elections.

The Secretary of the Plateau PDP Caretaker Committee, Mr Patrick Ogbu, raised the alarm on Friday in Jos, while speaking to the press.

He expressed the concern that this was coming despite the fact that the party complied with stipulated guidelines governing election.

According to him, this was despite the fact that the PDP had written to notify the commission of its party’s activities for the elections.

He thus concluded that teh commission was only planning to exlude the party from the election.

“But to our astonishment, the commission responded to that notification letter and inform us that they will not supervise our party primaries.

“They cited a court judgment against an already dissolved state executives and a judgement which was already complied with by the National Working Committee of our party.

“Subsequent correspondences between CTC and PLASIEC which included; request for the 2021 LG election guidelines, request for the release of nomination forms for our candidates, request for the audience with the PLASIEC chairman were not granted by the PLASIEC.

“It is crystal clear to us, that from our correspondences with PLASIEC, there is a grand plan by PLASIEC to exclude the PDP from participating in the local government elections.

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“We wish to put on notice that as a party we will resist any attempt to subvert the wheel of justice and deny our people the opportunity to participate in electing their leaders at the local government level through and legal means,” he stated.

According to him, the time table and other specifications of the electoral commission were duly followed by the party in its conduct of the elections.