The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
charges the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately
announce results as delivered from the polling units and declare the people’s
candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the winner of the February 23 Presidential election
Our position is predicated on clear
and verifiable results across the nation, showing that Atiku Abubakar is in
clear lead both in spread and total number of votes cast.
Intelligence available to us is that
INEC is delaying the announcement of results following directives by the Buhari
Presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC), which are bent on altering
the figures from the polling centers and allocate fictitious figures for
President Muhammadu Buhari, particularly in northern states.
Curiously, INEC server is now shut
down, results are no more being transmitted and the reason is to enable the APC
to inflate figures from six designated states.
We call on international observers
and election monitors to insist on a transparent process of transmission of
results and the monitoring thereof.
We already have reports of how APC
governors in the northern states have been making desperate effort to tamper
with the results of the elections in their respective states with the view to
award conjured votes to President Buhari.
In Kogi state, Governor Yahaya Bello
has been making frantic moves to change results to suit APC’s intent and
purposes as against the wishes of the people, expressly delivered at the polls.
Nigerians already know how the
Minister of Transportation and the Director-General of the Buhari Campaign,
Rotimi Amaechi, used the military to hold an INEC official in River state, Mrs.
Mary Efeturi, hostage and insisted that she will not be released until she
alters the results in favour of President Buhari
The PDP calls on INEC Chairman,
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu to note that in this age of Information Communication
Technology, Nigerians already have the results as delivered at the polling
centers and any attempt to alter any figure will be faced with vehement
resistance.
In delaying the announcement of the
results, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu is allowing the APC to turn him into a villain
and directly pitching him against the people. He should therefore extricate
himself from the rejected APC and be on the side of the people, by immediately
announcing the results as already delivered at the polling units and declare,
the people’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, the winner.
Anything short of this is not
acceptable to Nigerians, who had already expressed their wishes and aspiration
at the polls.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan
National Publicity Secretary
And
Director, Media & Publicity
PDP Presidential Campaign
Organization
