{"id":3805,"date":"2019-02-03T15:53:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2019-02-03T15:53:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T15:53:37","slug":"2019-election-how-buhari-intends-to-use-military-police-as-presiding-officers-timi-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/2019-election-how-buhari-intends-to-use-military-police-as-presiding-officers-timi-frank","title":{"rendered":"2019 election: How Buhari intends to use military, police as presiding officers \u2013 Timi Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Timi Frank, has raised the alarm over what he described as a plot by the Presidency and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to use military, Police and other security agents as presiding officers during the 2019 general elections.<\/p>\n

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Frank said the plot which has been perfected by top echelons of the presidency in collaboration with INEC and Security agencies is to ensure a decisive win for President Muhammadu Buhari and all the candidates of the APC during the elections.<\/p>\n

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Frank, in a statement issued to DAILY POST on Sunday, said, \u201cWe have authentic information that the worse will be witnessed in the 2019 general elections as the presidency and the INEC have concluded plans to deploy military and other security agents as presiding officers \u2013 disguised as civilians \u2013 to aid the APC in winning the elections<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is most appalling as it is coming at a time when the use of military personnel for election duties has become anathema in other climes. The present administration is not only plotting to use them to intimidate, harass and arrest key opposition leaders before, during and after the forthcoming elections but to deploy them as presiding officers in polling units across the country disguised as civilian personnel to thwart the express will of the Nigerian voter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hereby call on the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu-led INEC to redeem its image by desisting from this brazen partisanship unexpected of an electoral umpire anywhere in the world. Yakubu ought to have resigned following the confession by Buhari that the APC won last year\u2019s Governorship election in Osun State by \u201cremote control.\u201d<\/p>\n

He stated that part of the plot is to allow the influx of millions of foreigners \u2013 that INEC has since registered \u2013 into the country through the nation\u2019s porous northern borders to vote for the APC in all the scheduled elections.<\/p>\n

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