Opposition party, The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) blatantly refused to put pen to the result sheet paper of the recently-announced Presidential elections.
INEC named President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the election with the total votes of 15,191,847 votes, completely dismantling Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, who received 11,262,978 votes.
The incumbent President won in 19 states while Atiku won in 17 states plus Abuja.
PDP member, Mr Osita Chidoka stormed out of the hall at the National Collation Centre when INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu began calling for the party agents to come out and sign the result sheet.
A visibly-angered Osita Chidoka said to the press that the results were going to be rejected, and they are not the true revelation of the votes of Nigerians, because of the issues PDP as a party already raised.
Osita’s 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.”
