Press Statement
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rejects as highly
provocative, fraudulent and completely indefensible the alteration of final
results and declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner in
areas clearly won by the PDP in the Kaduna
state local council elections held on Saturday.
From the reports of results at
the polling centers, it is clear that the PDP defeated the APC in most of the
areas where elections held across the state, including Governor Nasir
el-Rufai’s ward where the PDP led with over 90% percent of the votes cast.
The result of this election is a
clear testimony of our popularity in the state. As such, PDP rejects the fraud
by Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission (KADSIECOM) in altering the
results in favour of APC.
It is totally intolerable for
KADSIECOM, working in cahoots with the discredited APC, to engage in the
manipulation of the collation process by changing the figures and announcing
final results that are different from figures tallied at the polling centers.
Such daylight robbery by the APC
is absolutely unacceptable, particularly, given the precarious security
situation in the state.
We have preponderance of
instances where final electoral officers were whisked away to unknown
destinations by agents of Kaduna
state government, aided by security agencies, while fake results are being
announced in favour of the APC.
For instance, while voters and
party agents were still waiting for the return of electoral officer, Mr. Elisha
Gandu at the Kajuru Local Government secretariat where results from polling
centers show that the PDP won 9 out of the 10 wards, the Nagarta Radio was busy
announcing APC as winner.
This is the situation in most of
the final results so far announced by the commission and we cannot accept such.
We want the APC and KADSIECOM to
note that the PDP has eyes everywhere, monitored the entire balloting processes
at all levels and know directly how all the parties, including our great party,
the PDP performed in all the polling centers across Kaduna state.
Consequently, the PDP cautions
the Chairman of KADSIECOM, Dr. Saratu Binta Dikko-Audu to save the state from
avoidable stress by resisting the APC, withdrawing all altered final results
and announcing only results that reflect the actual wishes of the people as
expressed in the ballot.
KADSIECOM Chairman must note that
the entire world is watching and history beckons as she makes her decision to
stand either on the side of truth, justice and honour or on the side of
corruption, treachery and infamy.
Signed:
Kola Ologbondiyan,
National Publicity Secretary
National Publicity Secretary
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