Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has said that the victory of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) at the just concluded polls will be short-lived.

The Senate president stated this on Wednesday at an emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja.

Mr Saraki explained that contrary to the views of many Nigerians, the outcome of the March 9 presidential election was a loss to the entire country and not just the PDP.

INEC had declared President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC winner of the election.

Mr Buhari, according to the electoral body, scored 15,191,847 votes. Atiku Abubakar of the PDP garnered 11,262,978 votes to finish as runner-up.

But in his response to the declaration, the PDP candidate said the result was unacceptable to him and he would challenge it in court.

While delivering his remarks, Mr Saraki further noted that the conduct of the election, including the role of the military during the exercise, has made the country a laughing stock in the international community, adding that the purported winners of the election are ashamed of the process.

“This victory that the other party has seen is going to be short lived. If anybody believes that it is a loss to PDP, it is a loss to the country that history will not forgive.”

“We said it many times here, that the worst to do is to do an election that as a country Nigeria will not be proud of.

“We have done an election that no doubt anybody and even those that think they have won are ashamed of the kind of election that we did.

“I think it is a shame to the country and to those that were given that responsibility to do. They have Saturday as their last opportunity to try as much as possible to reclaim part of their embarrassment to the country.

“How can a country like Nigeria, as the speaker said, Ghana has done it, even Congo, even Zimbabwe have done elections. And we say we do elections, with seven inconclusive. We did elections before, in 2015, we did it in 2011, 1999 and after so many years, this is what we can produce.

“It is not a loss to the PDP, it is to the country. It just shows the level of desperation. I have confidence that this will be shortlived and as such let us ensure on Saturday, that these five states that are ours remain within the PDP and INEC should for once do what is right.

“We have a great future ahead and I believe we will start that on Saturday to make sure that we defend those five states that are declared inconclusive,” Mr Saraki said.

Also speaking at the NEC meeting, the PDP vice presidential candidate, Peter Obi, said he wondered the kind of legacy the APC administration is setting for the younger generation if they supervise electoral malpractices.

“As for me, while we blame the INEC and the security agencies, the biggest shame goes to those who are directing them to do the wrong thing.

“If you choose to be a leader, especially with APC that claims integrity, the biggest corruption and the biggest show of a government that does not believe in integrity is to rig election. Because the process through which you come into office, is far more fundamental than what you do there after.

“I think we should hold them responsible for what is happening in this country now. The examples we are setting for the young ones, I don’t know what they will tell a young man who is cheating in an exam in this country after seeing the ways our elections are conducted. I don’t know what they will tell those who are robbing banks and kidnapping people, because we have seen the biggest of it by this election where people are happy after robbing the nation and their states,” Mr. Obi said.

Earlier, in his welcome address, the PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus, said the emergency NEC meeting is to enable party members deliberate on issues relating to the March 23 supplementary polls.

The PDP chairman cautioned the INEC chairman to ensure that the results of the supplementary polls reflect the wishes of the people of the affected states.

He added that if the INEC chairman continues the way he has been going, he would truncate the nation’s democracy.

He charged the INEC boss to see the supplementary polls as an avenue for the electoral commission to redeem its credibility.

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I know one thing that can be possible in this govt,i also know another that is highly impossible which is to depose and unseat dictator muhamadu buhari through court nor election..pls oloye just forget it

Oloye ololo

Naija destiny may be delayed but it must surely come to pass

God willing we will get there

Politicians would attempt to rig.

They would foment violence and anarchy.

INEC would cancel some polling units due infractions and irregularities all predicated on well set out laws.

The same politicians begin to blame INEC for their own dubious actions.

I hope so

GavelSlam:
Politicians would attempt to rig.

They would forment violence and anarchy.

INEC would cancel some polling units due infractions and irregularities all predicated on well set out laws.

The same politicians begin to blame INEC for their own dubious actions.

Most of them crying have been in the game since 1999 when results were written in their offices and the margin between them and their opponents are so !ich that you begin to wonder how the votes were collated within 4hours.

Elections are now different that you can't write figures in your offices, you can't cause violence and alter results and you can't change the margin anymore. If INEC detects such, cancellation comes in and the margin is within catch-up which leads to rerun.

Don't blame them Sha, most of them had too many easy rides during the dark days of elections when oppositions are told their score before elections are concluded.

Space for sale!

Abeg allow Buhari to go on in peace till He retire by his will..

What did you expect from someone who had fought and contest under 6.5, later clung unto power to manage it with integrity...

Atiku should wait until Buhari tenure, then power hand over to our know-how-rule northern brothers..

Kus am not ready to face political war with I-kill-you ki mai self brodas

kingkakaone:

Most of them crying have been in the game since 1999 when results were written in their offices and the margin between them and their opponents are so !ich that you begin to wonder how the votes were collated within 4hours.

Elections are now different that you can't write figures in your offices, you can't cause violence and alter results and you can't change the margin anymore. If INEC detects such, cancellation comes in and the margin is within catch-up which leads to rerun.

Don't blame them Sha, most of them had too many easy rides during the dark days of elections when oppositions are told their score before elections are concluded.

Stop eulogisiing failure.

"The pain of rigging" gang!

Stop spreading sugar over a rotten cake.

The election was not seen to be free and fair as you are claiming!

Are we talking of the same Saraki that even FFK recently mocked that he could not win a single local government in Kwara State for Atiku, despite being the Campaign Director?

Atiku surrounded himself with politically useless people like himself.

While his money that could not buy APC Presidential ticket in 2014 was able to buy PDP Presidential ticket in 2018, it was unable to buy him the votes of his village polling unit, talkless of the NorthEast or general North.

Lesson for Atiku here is that, while he spent his time in public service and political office enriching himself to become a billionaire that could not buy him the Presidency of Nigeria, Buhari spent his time in more lucrative public service and Head of State building a good name of integrity and uprightness that was enough for the people of Atiku's village to prefer Buhari over their thief of a son.

They collected Atiku's money to celebrate Buhari's victory.

id911:


Buhari is a big thief, the criminal stole our mandate. We will certainly reclaim it in Court Insha Allah

I like that this fellow is in severe pains from the agony of electoral loss.

Tell Atiku to reclaim the mandate of the electoral loss of his own polling unit?

Of course, they know that they are going back to Daura

Your career is ended already thief and killer.
Blood of the 33 kwarans u killed in offa robbery is crying out on top ur fat head already. enough is enough oleeeeeee

Konki:


Stop eulogisiing failure.

"The pain of rigging" gang!

Stop spreading sugar over a rotten cake.

The election was not seen to be free and fair as you are claiming!

When has elections ever been free and fair in Nigeria?

The superior rigger always wins, the losers should cut their losses and move on.

Let's stop pretending we had an eldorado, things have always been bad since the 60's.

Saraki you know how PDP did it in the past APC scumbags are only returning the favour

In ur dream

So true

Hmm... What makes the PDP think that the same broken system that robbed them of power the first time will all of a sudden become upright and give a fair result now?
I just don't get it.

Oh...that suya guy is still asleep, he would have loved to masturbate on threads like this.

We all know the election was heavily rigged...Buhari knows this too.

Tor

Konki:


Stop eulogisiing failure.

"The pain of rigging" gang!

Stop spreading sugar over a rotten cake.

The election was not seen to be free and fair as you are claiming!

Only the wailers, will cry foul, saraki that was beaten blue black in kwara with video evident of his molestation after election, the Dubai strategy didn't work out,no wonder they insisted on electronic transmission of results and sudden passage of electoral bill, so they had their own concocted result before election and you can imagine the unrealistic figures they are chunking out, just hope they will not deployed their anti development tactics to slow down progress in the country.

PotatoSalad:
No lie.
It's clear that Atiku won the election. Let's call a spade a spade

No lie, Atiku must have won his polling unit on INEC server, but the physical count done in his presence in his own village must have been rigged?

Let's call a spade to company with us in misery and delusion.

StOla:



No lie, Atiku must have won his polling unit on INEC server, but the physical count done in his presence in his own village must have been rigged?

Let's call a spade to company with us in misery and delusion.

Don't stress me

It's the bitter truth!!!

KingOfAmebo:
Oh...that suya guy is still asleep, he would have loved to masturbate on threads like this.

We all know the election was heavily rigged...Buhari knows this too.

Na for ur family compound dem rig d election amebo?
Na only u n ur fellow people know na.
U go cry blood tired.
Loser.
no go find beta tin do in ur life dan 2 dey do amebo on nairaland.

Okay

Konki:


Stop eulogisiing failure.

"The pain of rigging" gang!

Stop spreading sugar over a rotten cake.

The election was not seen to be free and fair as you are claiming!

If you voted... you will know the election was free and fair. Yes, pocket of violence especially in the SS and SE.....overall, the election was miles ahead of what I have witnessed in 2011 and 2015.
In those years,the likes of Saraki, Akpabio and Ajimobi cannot lose this 2019 elections..... e.g. for Ajimobi, miracle figures would have surfaced from Ibadan SW, his stronghold. The use of card readers really dealt with politicians... even if they will rig, they can't rig more than the numbers of accredited voters, if they do..it is over voting and outright cancellation..No miracle figures anywhere.

The rigging tactics employed in 2019 was for strong politicians to cause mayhem in their opposition strongholds so that elections there can be cancelled....Just like what is happening in Rivers...that is the best they can do.
As for the Presidential election, the North has duped Atiku, he should move on...E actually lose square and wide!