APC rejects supplementary election, insists on poll cancellation

 
The All Progressives Congress has rejected the announcement by INEC that it will hold a supplementary election after declaring last Saturday’s governorship poll in Anambra State inconclusive.
The party insisted that only the “total cancellation of what it described as the grossly-tainted and widely-manipulated election will be acceptable.”

In a statement in Lagos on Monday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also called on INEC to come clear on how the election was sabotaged from within the electoral commission itself.
It said this would give the electoral umpire the opportunity to establish “how entrenched the forces of evil within the commission are and also to avert a looming national disaster into which an infiltrated, incompetent and conniving INEC can plunge Nigeria.”
APC said it was apparent that INEC was “indeed not taking seriously the opinions of Anambra residents as well as local and foreign observers that most of the registered voters in the state were willfully disenfranchised” on Saturday.
”First, the electoral commission proposed make-up election in only 65 polling units in Obosi before scaling things up to a supplementary election ‘in those areas where election was cancelled’. But we say, without equivocation, that a total cancellation of the election and the organisation of a fresh poll, under the supervision of a credible Resident Electoral Commissioner, will be acceptable to our party,” it said.