The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has in an early evening statement marked ‘urgent’ called on voters in Kogi state to rise and protect their votes and not to rest on their oars.
Conveying a total lack of trust in the security forces, the CUPP urged voters to complete what they started by standing up and protecting the votes they cast for their choice candidate.
The statement signed by the opposition coalition spokesman, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere and made available to crimefacts.news read in part: “Results collation centers’ defense and monitoring is the most important thing now. We urge all Kogi leaders to mobilize their youths and women to ward and LGA collation centres now. Watch collation officers and monitor them from leaving the collation centres without finishing their collation work.
“Some of them that are already compromised will run away to the state capital to collect rigged results to submit. Monitor strange vehicles driving into collation centres to forestall already thumb-printed or manipulated results being smuggled into collation centres.
“If you leave the collation centres for party agents alone, they will overrun them and swap results. The only antidote to the unholy plans of APC that is losing from changing the results is to deploy peoples’ force and get thousands of people to camp at the collation centers at ward and LGA levels with their rechargeable lanterns or torch light and keep vigil till the result reaches state collation centre.
“Monitor and guard the generator house to prevent them from cutting off the power supply. No victory or change comes without sacrifice and inconveniences. The will of the people is stronger than any gun.
“Do not allow anybody force your party agents out of the collation centre. Defend your votes and results this night, at all cost.”
