Abubakar Audu
Matthew Onah
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Kogi State has threatened to make the state ungovernable if the state Independent Electoral Commission (KOSIEC) refuses to heed to its advice to ensure a level playing field by displaying the voters’ register, within the stipulated time .
Addressing journalists yesterday in Lokoja, the ACN state leader and former governor of the state, Prince Abubakar Audu, said they were in possession of information that KOSIEC, was allegedly making arrangements to divert election material on the day of election.
Flanked by the ACN chairman, Mr. Haddy Ametuo and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Chairman, Mohammed Mobo Kassim, Audu stated that any attempt to short changed the electorate was capable of causing security breach in the state.
He said election materials meant for about six local government areas comprising Ofu, Dekina, where the incumbent governor hails from, Ijumu, KotonKarfe, Olamaboro, and Idah, where the opposition have comparative advantage, would be diverted on election, to cheat the people of the chance to vote for candidates of their choice.
The former governor warned of a possible breakdown of law and order, if the elections are tempered by the PDP as they are planning. The people are going to resist any attempt to disenfranchise them.
He stated that the issue of display of voters’ register was a constitutional order that cannot be discarded.
The ACN said it had uncovered plans by the PDP to rig the election through the use of fake Army and Police personnel to hijack the ballot boxes but warned that the party will vehemently reject the move.
It alleged that in its bid to rig the election, the PDP-led government in the state substituted the electoral officers of Ijumu, Adavi local government areas because they refused their biddings
“We are ready to give fire for fire, pebble for pebble and stone for stone and make the state ungovernable,” the party warned.
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