The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has today, turned down the signing of the result sheet of the elections announced by INEC early this morning.
INEC pronounced that President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) won the election having emerged with the highest votes of 15,191, 847 votes to secure victory against his Atiku Abubakar of the PDP who polled 11,262,978 votes.
Buhari was winner in 19 states while Atiku won in 17 states plus the Federal Capital Territory.
PDP man, Mr Osita Chidoka exited the hall at the National Collation Centre when INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu began reaching out to party agents to step forward and sign the result sheet.
Mr Osita in an interview then said the result was unacceptable and not recognizable as the valid votes of citizens of the country, due to issues already raised by PDP.
His words, “The second one is the issues we raised about the number of registered vis-à-vis if what the chairman now calls collated voters means that 1.6 million people are missing in the voter register.
“We think that the issue is substantial enough to require a resolution.
“We also believed that difference between the accredited voters and the total votes cast which came to about 750,000 votes, requires an issue to be looked at.
“Finally, we believe that INEC needs to look at the cancellations that took place in the election impacting 2.7 million.
“So, in our view, this election needs to looked at again and possibly we would have had a re-run, more importantly.
“We think that INEC should have looked consciously to the use of the card reader, the absence of card reader is a major violation in the elections, it renders that election null and void, and that is what the chairman promised us.
“So, for us in the PDP, we believe that this is a new law in Nigeria’s electoral history.”
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