Phantom and Reckless Claims by PDP on Inspection of Ballot Papers. Our attention is drawn to the blatant falsehood being bandied around by People’s Democratic Party in the State of Osun claiming that 11,000 ballot papers have been discovered to be fake in the on-going inspection of electoral documents at the Independent National Electoral Commission’s office, Osogbo. This claim is nothing but a joke taken too far by people who are nothing but enemies of progress and development in our dear State. Their pastime is to use all manners of dubious tactics to hoodwink unsuspecting members of the public into believing that their good-for-nothing petition has any shred of credibility. The Tribunal granted an order of inspection of all polling documents to both PDP and APC which process was commenced on the 9th day of September, 2014. Theexercise at the INEC office is in two folds. The first is getting certified true copiesof all the result sheets which have been obtained by both parties while the second is scanning of all the ballot papers for the purpose of forensic analysis and both arebeing done simultaneously by both PDP and APC. The only equipment authorized to be brought to the INEC office are the photocopiers and scanners and no other.One wonders how photocopiers and scanners will discover fake ballot papers as claimed by the PDP liars! Our team of inspectors is also on ground inspecting electoral materials and contrary to PDP’s falsehood, at no time did any PDP representative raised the issue that any ballot paper was fake. So, it is mischievous to state that INEC was unable to explain alleged presence of fake ballot papers. To buttress the point that the promoters of this falsehood are on wild goose chase and are all out to entertain themselves, the basis upon which their Petition is based is that in almost all the Polling Units, result sheets were not signed and stamped by the presiding officers. However, the certified true copies of the result sheet haveshown that the result sheets were signed, stamped and even authenticated by PDP agents in all the polling units being challenged. In fact, in some units that PDP claimed that election was rigged, it was PDP that had highest scores on the resultforms. What an absurdity of a reckless petition! The phantom claim of discovery of fake ballot papers is a product of hallucinatingminds of dishonorable persons who have no regard for truth and integrity of the judicial process. We are in receipt of the certified true copies of all result Forms (EC8A, EC8B, EC8C, EC8D and EC8E) particularly Form EC8A across all the polling units in the 30 Local Government Areas in the State and we discovered, contrary to PDP’sclaim in their Petition, that all the result sheets were not only signed, they were stamped by the respective Presiding Officers and countersigned by the party agents, including PDP agents. It is, therefore, a demonstration of crass irresponsibility for PDP public image handlers to now turn a mere inspection of polling documents that had revealed nothing positive in their favour to an avenue where they allocate imaginary votes which they failed to legitimately earn at the August 9, 2014 election and disturb the peace of the State with their odious noise of a victory that will never be. We urge our teeming supporters to ignore the falsehood of PDP which is merely calculated to hoodwink their paymasters in Abuja. For the PDP pathological liars, we wish they will desist from ignoble act of misleading members of the public, an enterprise that ensured their failure at the August 9 2014 governorship election in Osun in the first place. Signed Barr. Kunle Oyatomi Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy, APC, State of Osun.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:51:13 +0000
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