SAN FRANCISCO, February 26, (THEWILL) – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to discontinue the announcement of the presidential election results.
The party made the call at a press conference by Kabiru Turaki, deputy director-general of the PDP presidential campaign organisation, addressed in Abuja on Wednesday demanding that the announcement be placed on hold for INEC to release data of the accreditation done by card readers in the election.
Twenty-seven states and the FCT have so far been announced by INEC at the national collation centre in Abuja.
But PDP said votes cast it in its strongholds were cancelled, “particularly in Yobe, Nasarawa, Zamfara and Plateau.”
“The PDP demands the immediate discontinuation of the announcement until data from the use of card readers are made available,” Turaki said.
“The data are being reconfigured to align with the manipulations carried out in various polling units across the country.”
THEWILL recalls that Osita Chidoka, an agent of the PDP had protested at the coalition centre saying the party needed details of acreditation by card readers.
He was however, confronted by Festus Keyamo who countered saying the demand by the PDP couldn’t be handled by the coalition centre.
