The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)has rejected the result of the Bauchi South senatorial election held on Saturday.

The PDP candidate, Ladan Salihu, was declared runner-up in the election with 50,256 votes.
The electoral commission (INEC) had on Sunday declared the candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Yahaya Gumau, winner of the election with 119, 489 votes.
Mr. Gumau, a serving member of the House of Representatives, won in six out of the seven local government that make up Bauchi South Senatorial District. Mr Salihu won in one.
Most of the local government returning officer reported mass cancelation of votes which they said was occasioned by various shades of electoral frauds. About 68, 000 votes were cancelled in various polling units where elections were conducted.

Reacting to the announced result, the opposition PDP said the election was “the most scandalous ever in the history of Bauchi state and Bauchi South in particular.”

The party also alleged collusion between security agents, INEC officials and those of the state government to rig the election.

This position was, however, countered by a coalition of 25 other opposition parties who described the exercise as one of the most peaceful and credible elections ever conducted in the state. The coalition went further to congratulate the winner, urging him to be a good ambassador of the people of Bauchi.

Most of the parties that commended the election did not take part in it. Only nine political parties took part in the election.

Addressing a press conference at the party secretariat in Bauchi on Monday, the state chairman of PDP, Hamza Akuyam, said the by-election was an enactment of what the state government scripted, and rehearsed over a long period of time.

“The Bauchi State Government has perfected a script on the art and science of election rigging,” said Mr. Akuyam.

“This was carefully rehearsed and executed with active participation of law enforcement agencies and officials of the INEC.”

He alleged widespread vote buying during the exercise, alleging that “APC-led government officials openly lured citizens with cash for their votes.”

“Votes were sold for anything between N100 up to N5,000 – simply put, the ballot paper became the most sought after commodity in the zone during the exercise.

“Bauchi State Government colluded with the voting clerks and other electoral officers to stash ballot boxes with excess ballot papers only to turn around and cancel votes from the same boxes, then blame dubious card readers and over-voting.
“The social media is awash with damning revelations, scandalous videos and pictures of rigging as captured. The most shocking part of it is that the officials of the APC-led government in the state showed no respect for the law or the rights of the voters.”

“This is the first time in our democratic history that over 80,000 votes were cancelled in an election where only 256,763 were cast.
“We also have evidence that card readers were also not used in the larger part of Toro local government; which explained the massive number of votes secured by the APC compared to Bauchi which has more centers and registered voters.

“It is also regrettable that the state office of the INEC became theatre of electoral malpractice and manipulation where figures were scandalously re-jigged to favour the APC.”
On their part, the coalition of 25 opposition parties also granted a press conference at about the same time as the PDP was having its own. The coalition shared a different view of what transpired during the election.

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Since 2015 PDP has been in the business of rejecting elections. They keep rejecting elections unknown to them that a constant majority of Nigerians have rejected them

This position was, however, countered by a coalition of 25 other opposition parties who described the exercise as one of the most peaceful and credible elections ever conducted in the state. The coalition went further to congratulate the winner, urging him to be a good ambassador of the people of Bauchi.

25 parties accepted the result, Only PDP rejected it, They should conduct their own election then