PUERTO Princesa Mayor Lucilo Bayron on Monday accused the Office of the Election Officer (OEO) of railroading the processing of the recall-election petition filed against him.
In a news statement, Bayron accused the OEO of abruptly ending the period of verification of the signatories to the recall petition against Bayron.
“This is an obvious attempt to railroad the implementation of a sham recall election that was already exposed to contain thousands of fraudulent signatures, including signatures of dead people,” Bayron said.
Bayron questioned how the verification of signatures ended after the examination of 32,322 signatures out of the 35,731 signatures contained in the petition.
“There remains a total of 3,409 signatures that have yet to be verified, but the election officer assigned to this petition abruptly ended the verification process without offering any justification at all. Clearly, the election officer has unfinished business,” said Bayron.