Following the rescheduling of the presidential election set to hold today, the Peoples Democratic Party has rejected the new dates. Recall the Independent National Electoral Commission announced March 23rd as the new date for the conduct of the general elections.
Reports claim that the suspicious arrangements for the elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission was President Muhammadu Buhari’s plan so he could cling on to power. Prince Secondus, PDP’s National Chairman made this known while reacting to the enw election date announced by INEC. 
Secondus alleged that the All Progressives Congress had planned to thwart the will of Nigerians at all cost reason the election was postponed. Secondus warned that the party will not accept “anything short of a well organized electoral process devoid of manipulation, harassment and intimidation of voters and the opposition particularly members of the PDP.”
He added, “Having failed in all their nefarious options to enable them to cling on to power, the APC and the INEC came up with the idea of shifting the election, an action that is dangerous to our democracy and is therefore unacceptable.” The PDP leader continued saying that APC in connivance with the INEC “have been trying all options including but not limited to burning down INEC offices in some states and destroying of electoral materials to create artificial problems upon which to stand for their dubious act.”Via a statement from the national chairman’s media office signed by Ike Abonyi, Secondus said that the party is aware of the plan to rig the elections. “With several of their rigging options failing, they have to force INEC to agree to a shift in the election or a staggered election with flimsy excuses pre-manufactured for the purpose.“For the avoidance of doubt the PDP sees this action as wicked and we are also aware of other dubious designs like the deployment of hooded security operatives who would be ruthless on the people ostensibly to scare them away.” The PDP leader contimued saying by this action, the President had allegedly further demonstrated his “insensitivity costing the huge cost after Nigerians including those who came home from abroad have all mobilised to their various constituencies.” He recalled that the APC had plans of “burning down of INEC offices and engineering crisis in PDP stronghold areas to scare away the people.” He continued; “Recall that the Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai had earlier threatened international election observers of going to their country in body bags and with the fatal violence in the state on the eve of election, it’s clear what the motives are, to frighten the observers from the state so that he can carry out his nefarious acts,” he added. Photo Credit: Getty
