To ensure that the 2023 presidential election results are uploaded on its server, the Peoples Democratic Party has requested that the Independent National Electoral Commission halt further results collation.
In a joint press conference with the PDP presidential campaign council, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP’s national publicity secretary, commented on the election results.
She said that it was abundantly clear from the votes cast at polling places across the nation that Atiku Abubakar, the PDP’s presidential candidate, had significantly defeated Bola Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate, by the expressed aspiration and Will of Nigerians.
“INEC purposefully refused to begin the collation of results 48 hours after the election,” Ologunagba stated.
According to the spokesperson, the allegedly intentional delay by INEC created the conditions for reported compromise, alteration, falsification, and switching of election results in favor of the APC in Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Ondo, Ekiti, Kebbi, Ogun, and other states where our candidate was in a clear lead.
The PDP warns that INEC is driving Nigerians to the brink by announcing manipulated results and rejecting the rigged election results as announced by INEC.
However, we are aware that INEC conducted widespread, unlawful annulments of election results in numerous States across the nation. For instance, in Sokoto State, results from over 200 Polling Units where the PDP ahead has also been annulled, rendering over 200,000 registered voters ineligible to vote.
Again Information at our disposal indicates that INEC deliberately refused to begin the process of results announcement more than 48 hours after the conclusion of the election and the collation of results from the various Polling Units. By law, the results were expected to be transmitted directly into INEC Server/Website as provided for under Section 68 of the Electoral Act 2022.
The PDP demands that INEC should stop announcing manipulated results and immediately transmit the true election results from the polling places to its server or website as required by law before proceeding with the results announcement on behalf of Nigerians and for the sake of national peace.
The PDP also advised INEC that they should be aware that the party, the vast majority of informed Nigerians, and International Election Observers already have the results of the votes cast at the Polling Units across the country, adding that its agents have been on high alert and we have all the results in our database.
In conclusion, If it becomes necessary, the PDP will not hesitate to make the election results as they were cast at the Polling Units public.
Source: PunchÂ
