Ireti Kingibe, the senatorial candidate of the Labour Party, LP, has accused some officials of the the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC of collecting bribes from some unnamed politicians to compromise the February 25 election in the nation’s capital.
The wife of Babagana Kingibe, the running mate to Moshood Abiola in the 1993 presidential election, contesed last week’s election under the Labour Party.
She has now alleged manipulation of the results , warning that she will not allow some unscrupulous officials of INEC to subvert the wil of the voters.
Speaking to journalists on Monday, the senatorial candidate said it was wrong to cancel the electio! Hheld in the district due to some avoidable errors during the voting.
After cancelling the election, Kingible said some INEC officials are now writing the results on the prompting of some politicians who are bent on rigging the election.
She will not allow this to happen, she said saying she will fight to the end.
According to her, “We have watched them, millions have been bribed in this place, even up to millions of dollars have been put in this place to try to take the seat and it is not going to happen.
“I am going to the collation centre to let them know that we are not standing for this; we have watched them, they cancelled polling units where we are strong, thugs go to INEC collation centre, they tore electoral materials.
“Thugs went to Gwarimpa collation centre, they attacked the people there, they tore presidential result sheets, they went away.
“Fortunately, the Returning Officer had most of the results with her. They have been looking for reasons to cancel Osuma, Bwari, those are all our strongholds, they couldn’t, then suddenly they found an error on the total votes, they said it is over voting, the Electoral Officer told them it is not over voting, it is an error on from whoever wrote it, you cannot penalise the candidate for it, look at the result sheet, you will see that there is no over voting on any of them, they said it is not their job to look at result sheets, what kind of a country are we in.
“What the establishment and the people in charge of this country are looking for, if they are not careful they will find it because those of us at the bottom have heard enough.
“When we complain about anything they will say we should go to the polls; we have gone to the polls, they are still insisting that it is not good enough. The will of the people must prevail.”
Meanwhile, the LP has called for the cancellation of the presidential election because it no longer have confidence on INEC.
