People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar told the Independent National Election Commission (INEC) that the people of Adamawa would not want to be “misled three times in a row”.
Recall that we reported earlier that INEC suspended the process after the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) declared the Radical Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate Aisha Binani the winner. win the election.
According to Atiku in a statement issued by Paul Ibe, Communications Assistant to the PDP Presidential Flagbearer, Atiku urged Nigerians to have a “game plan that attempts to subvert the democratic wishes of the people of Adamawa State in ‘ Elections for Governor in the State’.”
Atiku said the initial decision by the Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner declaring APC candidate, Senator Aisha Binani, the winner of the election was a case study “in the turbulent nature of the election.” general elections in 2023″.
He said:
“In Adamawa, we are witnesses to a novel practice in election management where a Resident Electoral Commissioner announced the loser of an election as a winner.
“It is not in doubt that INEC has approached the Adamawa State election with a preset agenda of declaring the APC at all cost.
“It is, therefore, on this note that we wish to call the attention of the world to the scheme being perpetrated by INEC to compromise the electoral wishes of the people of Adamawa State.
“We also wish to inform the world that such behaviour by INEC has a natural consequence of unsettling the peace and security of the society.
“We have seen how INEC conducted the February 25 and March 18 elections against the run of play and challenging cheated candidates to go to the court, knowing full well the agenda that they are up to.
“It must be put on record that the people of Adamawa State will not allow themselves to cheated three times in a row. It must also be put on record that whatever the consequences of the scheme being scripted, both the INEC and those vested with state powers should be blamed for the consequences of such actions.
“That the APC candidate has a prepared acceptance speech is a pointer to the guarantee of a false victory which the INEC must have promised her.
“It is also our demand that the Adamawa REC and any other parties complicit in this treasonable act should be arrested immediately and prosecuted to the full extent of the law to serve as a deterrent to anti-democratic forces who may want to torpedo our democracy and provoke violence in our country,” he said.
