Breaking: PDP rejects election result in Katsina ON March 10, 2019 8:55 PM / IN Elections 2019 Updates , News , Politics / Comments
By Bashir Bello
KATSINA – The leading opposition, Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, in the governorship and
state assembly elections in Katsina state has
rejected the outcome of the Saturday’s polls in
the state.
A woman wearing a veil votes in the
presidential and parliamentary elections, on
February 23, 2019, at a polling station in
Daura, Katsina State, northwestern Nigeria.
– Nigerians began voting for a new
president on February 23, after a week-long
delay that has raised political tempers,
sparked conspiracy claims and stoked
fears of violence. Some 120,000 polling
stations began opening from 0700 GMT,
although there were indications of a delay
in the delivery of some materials and
deployment of staff, AFP reporters said.
(Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)
This was as it said it will take legal action to
challenge the outcomes.
The party Chairman and the deputy governorship
candidate, Salisu Majigiri said the election
outcomes as being collated currently by the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC
is not the will of the people.
As at the time of filing in this report, INEC have
received results from 30 out of the 34 local
government areas of the state.
Majigiri while addressing newsmen on the INEC
premises said “On behalf of the governorship
candidate, Senator Yakubu Lado, myself as the
deputy governor, the state house of assembly
candidates and the PDP hereby rejected the
result because the voters turn out yesterday was
very poor. There was low voter turnout yesterday
(Saturday) in Katsina compare to the Presidential
election. But from the figure we are receiving
now, the INEC is trying to announce the figures
that are not the real figures and not the will of
the people.
“We have so far received 30 out of 34 local
government areas. So we have compare with the
result that we are having with us as brought to us
by our agents. There are so many discrepancies
between the results been announced at the INEC
headquarters and that with us. So we have
rejected the results in totality and we are not
going to accept the result that INEC is going to
collate.
“So we are rejecting the result even before the
announcement by INEC. We don’t have the
authority to announce our own results but we
have the figures and we will make it public after
INEC announcement.
“For instance in Zango local government area,
our party agents were chased away by security
agents because they cannot win such areas
without force. In Kaita, the result was collated in
INEC office.
“We are going to take constitutional measures.
There is a provision in the constitution, the
electoral law which when you are not satisfied
with the process, you have your ways to
challenge the outcome,” Majigiri however stated.
However, as at the time of filing in this report,
election results are still been collated in the INEC
headquarters, Katsina.
Results from two out of the 34 local government
areas of Kankara, Kafur.
KATSINA – The leading opposition, Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, in the governorship and
state assembly elections in Katsina state has
rejected the outcome of the Saturday’s polls in
the state.
A woman wearing a veil votes in the
presidential and parliamentary elections, on
February 23, 2019, at a polling station in
Daura, Katsina State, northwestern Nigeria.
– Nigerians began voting for a new
president on February 23, after a week-long
delay that has raised political tempers,
sparked conspiracy claims and stoked
fears of violence. Some 120,000 polling
stations began opening from 0700 GMT,
although there were indications of a delay
in the delivery of some materials and
deployment of staff, AFP reporters said.
(Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)
This was as it said it will take legal action to
challenge the outcomes.
The party Chairman and the deputy governorship
candidate, Salisu Majigiri said the election
outcomes as being collated currently by the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC
is not the will of the people.
As at the time of filing in this report, INEC have
received results from 30 out of the 34 local
government areas of the state.
Majigiri while addressing newsmen on the INEC
premises said “On behalf of the governorship
candidate, Senator Yakubu Lado, myself as the
deputy governor, the state house of assembly
candidates and the PDP hereby rejected the
result because the voters turn out yesterday was
very poor. There was low voter turnout yesterday
(Saturday) in Katsina compare to the Presidential
election. But from the figure we are receiving
now, the INEC is trying to announce the figures
that are not the real figures and not the will of
the people.
“We have so far received 30 out of 34 local
government areas. So we have compare with the
result that we are having with us as brought to us
by our agents. There are so many discrepancies
between the results been announced at the INEC
headquarters and that with us. So we have
rejected the results in totality and we are not
going to accept the result that INEC is going to
collate.
“So we are rejecting the result even before the
announcement by INEC. We don’t have the
authority to announce our own results but we
have the figures and we will make it public after
INEC announcement.
“For instance in Zango local government area,
our party agents were chased away by security
agents because they cannot win such areas
without force. In Kaita, the result was collated in
INEC office.
“We are going to take constitutional measures.
There is a provision in the constitution, the
electoral law which when you are not satisfied
with the process, you have your ways to
challenge the outcome,” Majigiri however stated.
However, as at the time of filing in this report,
election results are still been collated in the INEC
headquarters, Katsina.
Results from two out of the 34 local government
areas of Kankara, Kafur.
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