Osun Guber Election: PDP Accuses INEC, APC Of Plot To Use Fake BVAS

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Osun State chapter has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of colluding with the All Progressives Congress (APC) to flood the state with fake or compromised Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BIVAS).

The chairman of the party, Dr Akindele Adekunle, who raised the alarm while addressing newsmen in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, also alleged that the state police command in connivance with the APC-led government has embarked on mass arrest of PDP members in the state for some days now.

The chairman gave the police a 24-hour ultimatum to release all PDP members picked up in various local governments and detained unlawfully to avoid untoward reaction from the people of the state.

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“Osun PDP reminds officers and men of the Nigeria Police as a very important institution of government that their core duty is to protect lives of all citizens irrespective of race, gender or political affiliation.

“It is, therefore, a compounded aberration for such important institution of government to turn itself to attack dogs at the hands of the APC in Osun State.

“Reports reaching the state PDP, especially in the last two days, have confirmed that a serving commissioner in the government of Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola has been taking police operatives to private homes of PDP members in some local governments in the state to forcefully arrest them without any just cause.

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“Specifically, police were reported to have invaded private homes of innocent members of our party members in Ijebu jesha and Eti Oni in Oriade and Atakumosa East local government areas respectively, effecting forceful arrest of our members and inflicting on them bodily harms, even without any warrant of arrest to justify such course of action against harmless citizens.

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“More worrisome is the fact that the police chose the dead of the night to invade their homes, embarking on sporadic gunshots and thereby subjecting the victims and their relatives to unnecessary psychological trauma.

“This is the height of abuse of office by the cabinet member of Oyetola’s government and acute unprofessionalism on the part of the police for making themselves available for unjust harassment of citizens they are being paid to protect.