AS Vice President Namadi Sambo led stakeholders in Kaduna State for massive campaign for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) preparatory to todays presidential election, the Congress of Progressive Change (CPC) has accused the ruling party of plotting to rig the election.Presidency sources hinted that Sambos relocation to Kaduna two days to the polls was to ensure that all the stakeholders in the party were adequately mobilised to ensure that the partys last-minute campaign was taken to the hinterland to ensure President Goodluck Jonathans victory at the polls.But a CPC chieftain and member representing Kawo Constituency in the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Alhaji Mohammed Illyasu, yesterday alleged that his party had uncovered plans by PDP in the state to rig the election, using satellite ballot boxes.According to Illyasu, PDP, which had failed the nation in its 12 years in power, had also planned to use money in some of the polling units to win the election.He, however, said any plan to rig the polls would fail, considering the present electoral process, where everything had been made very clear to the people, beginning from the number of eligible voters and all the electoral materials made available by INEC.But defeated PDP senatorial aspirant, Alhaji Hamisu Yusuf Abubakar, described as malicious, text messages making the rounds across the country that the party may have voted large sums of money to influence INEC officials and security agencies to favour PDP during todays polls.The information is false in its entirety and circulated by persons with the intention to cause confusion, Abubakar said yesterday at a press conference.According to him, results of the National Assembly elections clearly show that PDP was still the political party to beat.What is very clear is that elections have been held and Nigerians have spoken. We are democrats and we believe in the will of the people.It is very clear from results of last Saturdays election that PDP is still the party to beat. Some of us here in Kaduna lost the election, because of a combination of factors and since after the elections, all of us have gone back to the drawing board and are strategising to ensure that we deliver our state to the President, he stated.Abubakar added: I think people are scared and intimidated with the level of cooperation we have seen among the stakeholders in trying to ensure that we deliver Kaduna State.That is why they have come up with these mischievous text messages, so that they can confuse the people and at the end of the day, when we emerge victorious, they will say PDP rigged the election.I also want to call on our opponents and those responsible for the circulation of these text messages to desist from it, because our country is bigger than any individual.
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