PDP Rejects Election Result In Katsina

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.

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.

Source:- Vanguardngr