The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to immediately declare its Candidate, Abba K. Yusuf, as the winner of the Kano State Governorship election, based on the results of the March 9, polls.
The party in a statement on Saturday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, insisted that no valid election held at the March 23, Kano supplementary elections, and therefore, no figures could be fabricated from the exercise to displace Yusuf’s leading margin of over 26,000 votes.
He noted that the people of Kano State have since made up their minds to have Yusuf as their Governor, and any attempt by anybody to subvert their will as already expressed in the March 9, substantive poll, would surely attract the legitimate anger of the masses.
Ologbondiyan stated: “We therefore, call on INEC to immediately do the needful, by respecting the will of the people, as freely expressed on March 9, and announce Abba Yusuf, the flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, as the winner of the election, having fulfilled the demands of section 179 (2) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).
“INEC is already aware that its supplementary election in Kano, was completely disrupted by thugs contracted by the All Progressives Congress, APC, who invaded polling units and chased away voters. The Commission therefore, cannot accept fabricated figures being bandied by the APC, as results from the scuttled rerun.”
