The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) sternly cautions the leadership of
\nthe Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under Prof. Mahmood
\nYakubu, against attempts by his commission to tamper with and further
\ncancel already tallied and declared results in 14 more local governments
\nin the Bauchi Governorship election.<\/p>\n
In a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, “The PDP warns that with the
\ncharged atmosphere in Bauchi state and the level of awareness attained by
\nthe people of the state, any attempt by anybody to touch the already
\nannounced results will attract serious consequences to the conspirators.<\/p>\n
“Our party already have full information of plots by certain known top
\nranking officials of INEC, who have been bribed with huge sums of money
\nby the All Progressives Congress (APC), to widen the scope of result
\ncancellation beyond Tafawa Balewa to 14 more Local Government Areas and
\nhike the number of cancelled votes from 70,000 to 184, 555.<\/p>\n
“To achieve this, INEC has been instructed by the APC to cancel already
\ndeclared results in 230 polling units in 15 LGAs, in the state, cause
\nconfusion and pave the way for the APC to manipulate the March 23
\nSupplementary elections.<\/p>\n
“Seeing that our party, the PDP, and our candidate, Senator Bala
\nMohammed, are inevitably coasting to victory, being that Tafawa Balewa
\nis home to the PDP, the APC is instructing INEC to cancel elections in
\nmore local governments where it plans to manipulate the processes and
\nallocate fictitious results for the APC at the March 23 polls.<\/p>\n
“The PDP states that such a wicked plot cannot stand, as the people of
\nBauchi state have fully rallied themselves for a firm resistance.<\/p>\n
“Our party is already in possession of a leaked document from the Bauchi
\nINEC office, which exposed details of this wicked plot against the
\npeople of Bauchi state.<\/p>\n
“This plot further justifies our stance that even the cancellation of
\nTafawa Balewa results was orchestrated by the APC and INEC in the
\nignoble bid to forcefully rob the people of Bauchi state of their choice
\nof the PDP candidate, Senator Bala Mohammed, as their governor.<\/p>\n
“It is public knowledge that by the results delivered at the polling
\nunits, Sen. Bala Mohammed was already leading with over 4,000 votes
\nafter results of 19 LGAs were collated and announced.<\/p>\n
“With Tafawa Balewa LGA, where the PDP scored 40,000 valid votes against
\nthe APC\u2019s 29,000, it is clear that our party won the election with about
\n15,000 votes, only for the results of the Tafawa Balewa LGA to be
\ncancelled for no just cause by INEC.<\/p>\n
“The PDP invites Nigerians to note that Tafawa Balewa result was
\ncancelled by the state Returning Officer, Prof. Mohammed Kyari, who
\nunilaterally ruled that there was no result for the LGA even when the
\nCollation Officer, Mrs. Dominion Anosike, had informed the commission
\nthat there was no any incident of cancellation, violence or electoral
\nmalpractices at both the polling unit and ward levels.<\/p>\n
“Though the PDP vehemently rejects the cancellation of Tafawa Balewa, we
\nstand with the people of Bauchi state, in the determination to go to the
\nsupplementary election on March 23 and reinforce our candidate\u2019s victory
\nin Tafawa Balewa LGA. This is in addition to the resolve to vehemently
\nresist any attempt by INEC to tamper with already declared results in
\nthe other 19 local governments of state.<\/p>\n
“The PDP therefore urges the INEC fact-finding committee headed by a
\nNational Commissioner to be guided by the extant rules as established in
\ncourt rulings that the polling units is a base of our elections and that
\nonce declaration has been made at the polling units and return of votes
\nestablished, INEC no longer has powers to influence the results from
\nsuch polling units.<\/p>\n
“Finally, the PDP counsels the APC to accept its defeat not only in
\nBauchi state but also in Sokoto, Benue, Plateau, Kano as well as Adamawa
\nstates, and end its shenanigans, as such will amount to naught.<\/p>\n
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) sternly cautions the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) under Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, against attempts by his commission to tamper with and further…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n