The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged members of the public to disregard the allegation that it created illegal polling units in Osun ahead of the Saturday governorship election in the state.
The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja.
He described the allegation as baseless and false alarm.
“The Commission hereby urges the general public, especially the good people of Osun state to disregard the baseless allegations and false alarm made and raised by the PDP.
“The Commission also wishes to reiterate its determination to ensure that only the votes of the Osun state people, as would be freely expressed in Saturday’s governorship election, will determine who becomes the next governor of the state,” Oyekanmi said.
The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan had accused INEC of creating illegal polling units in Osun to rig the Saturday’s election for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Ologbondiyan at a news conference in Abuja on Friday said that the PDP had alerted Nigerians that the APC in a connivance with INEC was creating illegal polling units and delineating illegal wards across the federation.
“It will interest you to know that just as we are preparing for the Osun election, we have been able to burst one of those fictitious electoral wards created for APC to rig election.
“Ila Local Government has 11 electoral wards, but ahead of tomorrow’s election, INEC has created an imaginary 12 wards for Ila and allocated over 4,000 votes for that ward, and that ward is called Iperin.
“What they have done is to create two wards in Iperin, instead of one; allocated votes for both wards including the original ward and the fictitious ward.”
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