On Thursday evening, the Kaduna State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) criticized the delay of polls in four local government areas in the state.
Recall that with less than 12 hours to go before polls in Kaduna State’s 23 LGAs, KAD-SIECOM announced the delay of elections in four LGAs (Birnin Gwari, Chikun, Kajuru, and Zangon Kataf). The main reason for the postponement, according to KAD-SIECOM, is a security issue.
However, the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, in a statement signed by Abraham Alberah Catoh, State Publicity Secretary, questioned “why the Commission has decided to deceive the aspirants into believing that elections would be held in their respective Local Governments, only for the SIECOM to postpone the elections in those Local Governments just a few hours before the election, knowing full well about the election, knowing full well about the election, knowing full well about the election, knowing full well about the election, knowing
According to him, the State Independent Electoral Commission only recently delivered sensitive and non-sensitive materials to those Local Governments yesterday.
“The Commission has the security information before embarking on these distributions. We see the hands of Esau but the voice of Jacob in all of these,” the statement said.
The party described as absurd for the Commission to have told the citizens that it was due to the escalation of security situation in those places.
“We condemn in its entirety, the arbitrary rescheduling of the Local Government elections the fourth time.
“We called on the KAD-SIECOM to sit up and do its job without external interference from contrived “security reports” that was tele-guided by vested interests from the ruling party,” the statement said.
It called on PDP members to remain calm, and be prepared to vote for all the Councillorship and Chairmanship candidates across the remaining 19 Local Government Areas of the State.
