ABUJA- NATIONAL
Leadership of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP
disclosed Monday that it has
written a petition to the
Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC
to cancel the results of seven
States in last Saturday’s
Presidential and National
Assembly elections over what
it termed, alleged electoral
malpractices.
Addressing Journalists
Monday in Abuja, Deputy
National Chairman of PDP,
Prince Uche Secondus gave
the seven states as Kano,
Jigawa, Kaduna, Gombe,
Bauchi, Katsina and Kogi
States, adding that based on
concrete facts collated by
the field Agents party, the
party had already petitioned
the INEC through its Resident
Electoral
Commissioners,RECs in the
affected states.
Meanwhile, the PDP
Presidential Campaign
Organisation, PDPPCO
reiterated its claim that its
candidate, President
Goodluck Jonathan was
winning the presidential
election.
Secondus who alleged that in
the seven states, under aged
were allowed to vote in
contravention of the Electoral
Act, also alleged that voting
took place late in the night in
the affected states, adding, ”
In Kano and some of these
states in the North, majority
of voters were under-aged.
Voting also took place in the
night and you know that in
the night rigging can take
place.
“We have completed our
reports from Kano state
chapter.”
Secondus who declared that
the conducts of the election
in the affected states were
characterised by underage
voting,mid-night voting,voting
to rig and insurgency attacks
on voters in connivance with
the officials of INEC .
According to him,”we want to
put the entire World on notice
the evil plans of the main
opposition,the All Progressive
Congress,APC, in their
calestine meetings of
releasing unauthorised
election results by the INEC
to the members of the public.
“The sole aim of this is to be
misleading Nigerians and the
international Community
though their propaganda
machinery. we believe in the
rule of law and the electoral
law as amended.
“As we speak,our state
chapters have submitted their
petitions to the state
Resident Electoral
Commissioners and their on
their way to Abuja to submit
similar ones at the
Commission’s Headquarters
to its Chairman,Professor
Jega because we are being
guided by law.
“In kano state specifically,we
are all aware that voters
turned out en mass to vote
but regrettably,majority of
them turned out to be under
aged voters,we have
evidence,voting also took
place at night for rigging,our
state chapter had already
petitioned the REC about all
these malpractices”.
“In Gombe,similar thing
happened,there were
insurgency attacks on voters
and electoral officers and
people ran away for their
lives but at the end of the
day results were procured in
favour of the APC,”
“Similar scenario played out
in other states mentioned
earlier,in view of this,we are
calling for the total
cancellation of the
Presidential election results in
the seven states”,he declared.
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