The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has reacted to the allegation of the APC that Governor ‘Seyi Makinde has connived with INEC to frustrate voters and rig elections come 2023.
Describing the information as spurious, the opposition party in the state said the APC must have made such statement out of frustration because their plans to rig the coming polls had been blocked by INEC.
The spokesman of the PDP in Oyo State, Mr Akeem Olatunji, disclosed this in an interview with news correspondent, adding that it has dawned on the APC that its electoral failure was imminent.
“Their allegation on relocating polling units confirms the notion that APC is practically dead in Oyo. When someone has lost a fight, they will be fabricating reasons for their defeat and that is exactly what the APC is doing now.
“They know that they cannot win without manipulation and the plan has been blocked by INEC, so that is why they have resorted to spurious allegations
“We are not the ruling party at the federal level and INEC is a federal agency so, how is it possible for the opposition party to control the agency under the ruling party? They are saying what they have in mind about rigging the coming election but we are confident that INEC under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu would do a good job in 2023 elections.
“With the BVAS introduced by INEC, APC knows that they cannot get half of the votes they got in 2019 because the party had scattered and defeating them this time would cause us to break a sweat”, he stated.
Recall Oyoaffairs.net had reported that the Oyo APC said it had uncovered plans by the Peoples Democratic Party and the Independent National Electoral Commission to change the location of some polling stations with a view to frustrating voters on the day of the election.