APC Calls on Security Agents to Investigate PDP’s Allegation of BIVAS Manipulation

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Joining issues with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on its various criticisms and attacks on the Governor Monday Okpebholo administration, the ruling All Progressives Congress, (APC) has challenged the party to come forward with evidence that the fly over bridge flagged off recently by the governor at the Ramat Park, violated procurement procedures, as well as substantiate its allegation that it sent thugs to attack its party secretariat.
The APC also called on security agencies to investigate the PDP’s allegation that its party and the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC) manipulated the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, (BVAS) machines to rig the September 21 governorship poll in the state.
The APC berated a former Aviation minister, Osita Chidoka who, in his interview on Channels Television programme, Politics Today, concluded that the election was rigged in favour of Senator Okpebholo through the manipulation of BIVAS machines by the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC)
At a press conference on Sunday, acting chairman of the APC, Jarret Tenebe, faulted the PDP’s claim that the fly over bridge was in violation of procurement processes, insisting that it was captured in the budget. He upbraided the PDP for its consistent verbal assault on the Okpebholo administration, stating that the party lacked today’s governance realities.
Tenebe poohpoohed the allegation by the caretaker committee chairman of the PDP, Dr. Tony Aziegbemi, that APC thugs attacked its party secretariat which he challenged the party to substantiate, adding, “The ignoble and violent traits of PDP which they exhibited before, during and after the election are the signposts of imperialistic disposition which the Edo people shall never pray to experience again.”
On Chidoka’s claims, Tenebe said “We state unequivocally that there are two sets of BVAS machines in INEC office. The one legitimately used by INEC for the election, and the manipulated machines that were smuggled into the office of INEC by the PDP.
“We therefore now, more than ever before, call on the security agencies to investigate where the PDP got the manipulated BVAS machines from with which they are circulating fake results since same have been acknowledged in the public space.”
Condemning alleged public display of call to violence by some chieftains of the PDP during the campaigns in the event that the party lost the election, a situation he said was enough to query their moral rights to challenge the result of an election they expressed desperation to win, the APC chairman regretted that this resulted in ” the killing of the police inspector attached to the now governor”.
He said the “PDP, still celebrating its failure, has now embarked on a self-destructive voyage to criticise the government of Distinguished Senator Monday Okpebholo that has surpassed the non-achievement of Governor Obaseki in eight years, having just been in office for a few days.”
Responding to PDP’s criticism of the flyover bridge, Tenebe said Aziegbemi’s press conference a few days ago, only demonstrated that he had no knowledge of the implementation of the revised Appropriation Law 2024 of Edo State where, according to him, “the flyover bridge can be captured in the open-ended parenthesis of the budget which accommodates projects of implicit and urgent importance.
“Edo people are now happy that a governor who understands their plights and is ready to tackle them head-on has come, and they now know that what the PDP Government termed “impossible projects” like the flyovers, are realisable by a government that is determined to work and not believe in MoUs which only existed on papers.”
Addressing the alleged attack on its secretariat, Tenebe said “It is most disgusting for the PDP to ascribe the criminal destruction that happened in their moribund secretariat to the APC. While the APC government of His Excellency, Monday Okpebholo condemned any act of criminal tendencies like the alleged destruction of the PDP secretariat, it must be stated without equivocation that the said alleged act has no bearing with the APC”.
He said the allegation was a criminal one that must be proven beyond reasonable doubt, “Therefore, we require the PDP to substantiate their allegations with undisputed facts so that the allegations should not remain in the realm of suspicion which has no place in our criminal statutes.
“The PDP must know that His Excellency, Distinguished Senator Monday Okoebholo has put his hand to the plough and is ready to put Edo State on the map of progressives”.