The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the outcome of Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti state.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), had declared Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as the winner of the keenly contested poll.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola
Ologbondiyan, the opposition PDP said: “The process, characterized by
open alteration of results, brutalization of innocent citizens,
barefaced cruelty and intimidation of our members by security agencies,
is a brazen assault against democracy and a direct subversion of the
will of the people which is completely unacceptable.
“The PDP is armed with the details of all manipulations by the APC,
who is being aided by security agencies and compromised INEC officials
to rig the election, particularly, the audacious alteration and
substitution of election results in favour of the APC at the collation
centers amidst the brutalization of our agents.
“The PDP also has details of all the polling units where we won,
mostly with very wide margin ahead of the APC, only for the security
agencies to aid the swapping and alteration of such results with those
smuggled in by the APC at the collation centers.
“It is instructive to state that all the issues we raised ahead of
the election, including the conspiracy between the APC, some compromised
INEC officials and security agencies; the importation of thugs from
other states by the APC; the use of brutal force against our members and
the alteration of results in favour of the APC, have all manifested.
“The PDP holds strongly that there is no way our democracy can
survive with an electoral process such as this, being witnessed today in
Ekiti state under President Muhammadu Buhari and the current INEC.
“This bald-faced subversion of the will of the people is a clear
recipe for a serious crisis and we invite Nigerians and the
international community to hold President Buhari and his APC as well as
the INEC Chairman and heads of security agencies in Nigeria responsible
for any breakdown of law and order in Ekiti state as a result of this
election.
“This on-going robbery of the franchise of Ekiti people is a horrible
rape of our democracy and most uncharitable of President Muhammadu
Buhari and the APC who hugely benefitted from the credible election
midwifed by the PDP in 2015.”
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