Elections: PDP, LP Kick; Reject Presidential Results released by INEC

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the results of the presidential election released so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) saying its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has garnered more votes than his All Progressive Congress (APC) counterpart, Bola Tinubu, going by the results at the disposal of the party.

Similarly, the Labour Party (LP) has rejected the presidential election results so far declared by the electoral commission, alleging that the results does not reflect the will of the people.

PDP’s national publicity secretary, Debo Ologunagba, in a statement read and titled, “PDP To INEC: Halt Announcement Of Manipulated Results Now, Electoral Commission Pushing Nigerians To The Wall” said as a creation of the law, the electoral body must obey the law.

For the LP, the party accused INEC of non-compliance with provisions of the electoral guidelines, alleging “obvious manipulations of the election results” as the promises made about deploying a fail-safe system anchored on BVAS were broken.

“We hereby call on INEC to suspend further
announcement of the results, and follow its own guidelines or completely cancel the entire election and make plans for another election with strict compliance with the stipulated laws and guidelines,” LP said.

The party called on the international community to walk their talk in Nigeria, and cease to condone what it described as multiple evils being perpetrated in Nigeria country by the rulers of the country, noting, “here cannot be one standard for Nigeria, and another for the rest of the world.”

“The internet and social media is awash with videos and photographic evidences of the pervasive violence and attacks that were visited on Nigerians with some attacks still on-going across the country as we speak.

“The evidence of collusion between INEC and the security forces to subvert the will of the people are too numerous to be detailed here.

“The INEC guidelines on the conduct of the elections were extensively breached and INEC has evidently been very reluctant to make the necessary adjustment to remedy the situation.

“Contrary to the publicly advertised guidelines for the conduct of the elections, we are convinced that the processes leading to the results have been severely compromised. Consequently, we regret to state that we have lost confidence in the results being collated and being announced,” LP said.