President Muhammadu Buhari says
he expected Atiku Abubakar to go to court after the results of the 2019
presidential election were announced.
The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) had on Feb. 27 declared the president winner of the
2019 presidential election held on Feb. 23.
Buhari and his wife, Aisha, voted
on Saturday at the Kofar Baru 003 polling unit, Daura, Katsina state, in the
governorship and state assembly elections.
Asked to react to the decision by
the PDP to challenge the outcome of the presidential election, Buhari replied:
“I expected that to happen.”
Atiku had said he was going to
court to challenge the outcome because of malpractices.
He said: “One obvious red flag is
the statistical impossibility of states ravaged by the war on terror generating
much higher voter turnouts than peaceful states. The suppressed votes in my
strongholds are so apparent and amateurish, that I am ashamed as a Nigerian
that such could be allowed to happen. How can total votes in Akwa Ibom, for
instance, be 50% less than what they were in 2015?
“Another glaring anomaly is the
disruption of voting in strongholds of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos,
Akwa-Ibom, Rivers and diverse other states, with the authorities doing little
or nothing and in some cases facilitating these unfortunate situations.
“The militarisation of the
electoral process is a disservice to our democracy and a throwback to the
jackboot era of military dictatorship.”
Buhari also commented on the
tension and violence across the country over Saturday’s elections.
“I will leave it to the law
enforcement agencies especially the police because they have been meeting
virtually on a 48-hour basis to make sure that they have identified the
flashpoints, as you mentioned, wherever they are and make arrangements to
counter it,” he said.
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