The party, in a statement by National Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan yesterday, cautioned Malami to refrain from being used to commit unconstitutional acts during the exercise scheduled to begin on Tuesday.
“The constitution and laws of our nation are clear on the powers and statutory functions of the attorney general; he has no powers to interfere in the conduct of elections or direct the stoppage of an electoral process,” the PDP said.It asked Malami to “distance himself from the ignoble scheme by Rotimi Amaechi to cause trouble in Rivers State by attempting to scuttle the collation of results in the Rivers governorship election, which has been clearly won by the PDP and Governor Nyesom Wike.
“At least, not to my knowledge. Having said that, I believe it is uncouth to say that my principal is doing the bidding of the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi.”Also, asked to react, National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress Lanre Issa-Onilu said: “I don’t speak for Malami or Amaechi but for the party. They should be the ones to respond to the allegations.”
“To me, whatever the two ministers are doing is not new because we have seen how Rivers State governorship election was militarised on the instruction or influence of the ministers, even before the exercise,” he said.He also accused the APC-led government of pressuring INEC to compromise. According to him, “Although, some staff of the commission were bent on doing the right thing, their impact did not count, going by the magnitude of malpractices recorded in the 2019 elections.
Malami has a terrible history of mischief which makes me to believe this...
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