PDP Rejects Ekiti Election, Alleges Results Concocted

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday rejects the outcome of Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Ekiti State which was declared won by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi, allegending that the results was concocted by the declared winning party, APC, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies.

In a statement signed by Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP National Publicity Secretary, the party said that the process, characterized by open alteration of results, brutalization of innocent citizens, barefaced cruelty and intimidation of their members by security agencies, was a brazen assault against democracy and a direct subversion of the will of the people which was completely unacceptable.

The party claimed that it has the details of all manipulations by the APC, who were aided by security agencies and compromised INEC officials to rig the election, particularly, the audacious alteration and substitution of election results in favour of the APC at the collation centers amidst the brutalization of its agents.

“The PDP also has details of all the polling units where we won, mostly with very wide margin ahead of the APC, only for the security agencies to aid the swapping and alteration of such results with those smuggled in by the APC at the collation centers”

“It is instructive to state that all the issues we raised ahead of the election, including the conspiracy between the APC, some compromised INEC officials and security agencies; the importation of thugs from other states by the APC; the use of brutal force against our members and the alteration of results in favour of the APC, have all manifested”

“The PDP holds strongly that there is no way our democracy can survive with an electoral process such as this, being witnessed today in Ekiti state under President Muhammadu Buhari and the current INEC”

“This bald-faced subversion of the will of the people is a clear recipe for a serious crisis and we invite Nigerians and the international community to hold President Buhari and his APC as well as the INEC Chairman and heads of security agencies in Nigeria responsible for any breakdown of law and order in Ekiti state as a result of this election”

“The robbery of the franchise of Ekiti people is a horrible rape of our democracy and most uncharitable of President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC who hugely benefitted from the credible election midwifed by the PDP in 2015” the spokesman said.