The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), which candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso camea distant fourth in the just concluded Presidential and Assembly elections has called for the cancellation of the result of the election.
Penpushing reports that National Chairman of the party, Rufai Alkali made the call on Wednesday at a press conference in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), arguing that following way the poll was conducted, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has taken the country back to the pre-2015 era.
“We are deeply concerned that going by what had happened on election day, the election umpire has taken our country back to the pre-2015 era of election where everything goes: where voters were deliberately and systematically disenfranchised; where ballot box snatching and ballot box stuffing was the norm; where voter suppression was widespread; where violence and vote-buying were the main deciding factors of the outcome of elections; where security agents openly take side with the ruling party and participate actively in rigging elections..,” he said.
Penpushing further reports that Alkali listed seven fundamental observations made by the party, namely that the electoral commission deliberately undermined New Nigerian Peoples Party(NNPP) in the process, allowed campaign on election day by President Muhammadu Buhari and others, voter suppression, vote buying, BVAS failure and over voting, lying about IREV sever and election marred unprecedented violence.
“To save our democracy and our country, the present election results must not be accepted by Nigerians and by all friends of Nigeria. We are therefore calling on the immediate suspension of the announcement of results and the cancellation of the 2023 presidential election across the country. New election should be conducted as soon as possible,” he stated
Penpushing also reports that it is recalled that on Wednesday the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC} had declared the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, as the winner of the 25 February election.
The result announced by the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu disclosed that Tinubu, polled 8, 794, 726 to defeat his major rivals; Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 6, 984, 520 votes and Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) who secured 6,101,533 votes of the 24, 965, 218 total vote cast., while Kwankwaso of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) recorded 1,496,687 votes.
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