Opposition Political Parties under the aegis of Coalition of United
REC, All Progressive Congress, APC and the Army of holding back results in
the North West and North East for the purpose of padding up figures for
President Mohammadu Buhari.
CUPP in a statement signed by Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere,also alleged that the
Enugu State Governor, Mr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, other Governors of the South
East and Residence Electoral Commissioners in the East are being pressured
to pad votes for Buhari.
The statement reads:
The CUPP is in possession of irrefutable evidence that APC Governors of
the North west and some of North East geo political zones are working
assiduously to inflate the number of votes scored by President Muhammadu
Buhari in those regions so as to neutralize the landslide lead of Alhaji
Atiku Abubakar in the other four geo political zones.
They have most shockingly secured the ignoble collaboration of the
Nigerian Army which has begun to give cover to APC Chieftains and
compromised electoral officers to hold back the results from the areas
and to later attempt to smuggle in the inflated results.
Also having confirmed from their situation room that the numbers do not
add up and that President Buhari also failed to secure the
constitutional 25% of the votes cast in each of two thirds of the states
of the Federation, the President and his Party are mounting pressure on
the Enugu State Governor and the State Resident Electoral Commissioner
including other South East States to alter some results so as to award
at least 25% of the Votes to the President. It is instructive that
President Buhari did not secure the 25% votes in any of the States of
the South East. It is also in this same light that the outgoing
administration is plotting to frantically to declare the results of the
FCT as inconclusive so as to order a rerun where they will use security
and thugs to intimidate the people.
We hereby call on the Electoral Commission not to cancel any results
already declared where no incidents were recorded but only for the
President to have the opportunity to have an unmerited second chance.
The opposition Presidential Situation Room has completed compilation of
Polling Unit result sheets and tabulation of all results and we have
called the election for the incoming President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
We may however be compelled to release these results to the public to
forestall INEC from playing the games the APC is prodding them to play.
Our candidate won in a vast majority of the almost 120, 000 Polling
Units across the country. We wonder how INEC would now cancel results of
elections where even agents of the ruling party signed and where they
lost.
The credibility of this election must be maintained and not tarnished
because of the undeserved extended ambition of a man who failed woefully
in office.
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has won the elections. President Buhari and the
APC know this hence their desperation to attempt to overturn the will of
the people. But we sound this note of warning to them; we shall
successfully resist any human force that wants to tamper with the
victory of our candidate and the will of the majority of Nigerians.The
attempt to foist on Nigerians an illegitimate President through
inflation of electoral figures have failed .The People have elected a
legitimate President in the Person of Atiku Abubakar going by the
Polling Units results in our firm custody and we have no fear or doubt
about our ability to defend the sacred mandate Nigerian people have
given to Atiku Abubakar.
IKENGA IMO UGOCHINYERE
1ST NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON