Nigeria: Plans To Rig Presidential Election Intercepted in Kaduna

The truck with number plate AA 765 FKA has been driven to the headquarters of One Mechanized Division of the Army, Kawo, Kaduna. Bags of grains and other foodstuffs were also found accompanied by 20 people.

The Action Congress (AC) has accused the ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of the conveyance of the truckload of thumb-printed ballots to rig the election on Saturday 21, 2007.

"The thumb-printed-ballot-papers-filled truck that was intercepted in Kaduna is just a tip of the iceberg in the desperate scheming by the PDP, in collusion with INEC and the police, to rig this Saturday crucial polls as they willfully manipulated the state legislative and governorship elections," Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the National Publicity Secretary of AC in Abuja.

The opposition parties have formed a coalition to defeat the PDP in the Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday, April 21, 2007.