
PDP, LP, ADC DEMAND FRESH ELECTION, WANT YAKUBU TO STEP ASIDE
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP) and African Democratic Congress (ADC) have demanded a fresh election, saying the February 25 presidential election has been āirretrievably compromisedā.
This was announced during a joint press conference held on Tuesday in Abuja by Ralph Nwosu, the ADC’s national chairman, Julius Abure, the PDP’s Iyorchia Ayu, and the LP’s Julius Abure.
They alleged that Saturdayās presidential and National Assembly elections were manipulated by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at polling units by their failure to upload results electronically on the commissionās Results Viewing Portal (IReV).
According to Abure, who spoke on behalf of the LP, PDP, and ADC, āThis election is not free and far from being fairā, adding that there are āongoing cancellation of results from areas of strength of the opposition partiesā.
They declared a vote of no confidence on INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu and asked him to immediately step aside for an unbiased person to take over and conduct a fresh election.
The LP, PDP and ADC said the deliberate refusal of the INEC chairman to respect the upload of results electronically as stipulated by Section 60 of the Electoral Act 2022 is unacceptable.
The three parties said the result so far by INEC showed āmonumental disparitiesā between what the party agents signed and what INEC officials announced in Abuja.
They said the manual transmission of results compromised the integrity of the election process.
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