The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) says the “fresh revelation” in the European Union (EU) report has
vindicated the PDP and millions of Nigerians, in its position that the February
23 presidential election was rigged to favour President Muhammadu Buhari and
the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a statement by Kola
Ologbondiyan, spokesman of the party, PDP said the EU report has shown the
world that the opposition party has not been “crying wolf in insisting that the
election was outrightly rigged”.
In its report, the EU made some
recommendations which it said could help Nigeria strengthen its electoral
process.
The presidency had reacted
promising to support the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to
implement the recommendations.
But the PDP said Mahmood Yakubu,
chairman of the commission, ought to be prosecuted over the manner in which
elections were conducted.
“Nigerians are still in shock
over the revelations by EU of how about 2.8 million votes were deliberately
cancelled without sufficient accountability and how several returning officers
gave no reason for the cancellations,” the statement read.
“More shocking is the iniquity
committed at the national collation center, headed by the INEC Chairman, where
the EU report exposed inconsistent numbers, distortions and a large discrepancy
of 1.66 million more registered voters, as announced by INEC on 14 January,
compared to those announced by state returning officers during the collation of
presidential results.
“Nigerians witnessed, on national
TV, how professors and returning officers were unable to reconcile result
figures due to heavy manipulations upon which INEC declared the APC winner.
“The EU report has further
exposed the iniquity committed by the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu-led INEC by listing
how ballot boxes were compromised, how essential materials were missing, how
“voter register was not always ticked as required” and how “manual
authentication procedures were not correctly followed.
“The PDP therefore commends the
EU for the courage in exposing the evils committed by the APC and INEC in the
2019 general elections.
“The PDP insists that those in
INEC, who perpetrated such crime against our nation, in sabotaging the sanctity
of our electoral processes to frustrate the choice of Nigerians in a
presidential election, must be brought to book and made to face the wrath of
the law.”
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