The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has passed a vote of no confidence on the Prof. Mahmud Yakubu – led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the 2019 general elections.

Addressing newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan said recent events in the polity showed that INEC could be threatened to announce fake results, cancel elections, alter polling procedures and allow irregularities during the 2019 elections.

Ologbondiyan further demanded for the immediate review and revalidation of the voters’ register particularly in Kano and Katsina States to eliminate ‘all the minors’, insisting that no election must hold in the affected states until the register is sanitized.

“As we speak, the credibility of our electoral process under the current INEC is hugely in doubt. The nation was last week terrified by the Commission’s Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Mr. Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, who announced that INEC registered minors because its agents were threatened by members of the communities in those states.

“By this alarming and unpatriotic statement, INEC under Prof. Mahmud Yakubu has completely discredited and disqualified itself and cannot be trusted to conduct a credible, free and fair general elections in 2019.

“The import of this statement is that INEC under Prof. Yakubu is not firm in its acts and will consequently cave in and accept any form of irregularities once it is put under pressure by members of a voting community.

“It goes to say that this INEC can readily announce false results, cancel elections, alter polling procedures and allow any irregularities during the 2019 general elections once it is threatened by the All Progressives Congress (APC) or any other group for that matter.

“If INEC is afraid of a voting community so much so that after registering minors, it still went ahead to process their data and issue them with valid voters cards, then there is no way it can withstand the pressure and threats that we all know will be exerted by desperate APC forces whose electoral strength, particularly in Kano and Katsina states, is now exposed to be based on underage voters,” Ologbondiyan said.

The PDP maintained that the plan by the electoral body to ask the Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC) to monitor campaign funds of political parties was a way of suppressing the opposition’s financial contribution and spending.

The party therefore urged Prof. Mahmud Yakubu and the entire management of the electoral body to take the path of honour and do the needful in the interest of the nation before it becomes too late.