Afrigather The candidate of Nigeria’s fundamental opposition social gathering known as the victory of the ruling social gathering’s contender at presidential polls “a rape of democracy” on Thursday (Mar. 2nd).
Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering got here second with 6.9 million votes, behind Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress who polled over eight million votes, whereas Peter Obi of Labour got here third with 6.1 million votes.
“The desires and aspirations of Nigerians who braised all of the challenges to go and solid their vote on a Saturday twenty fifth February 2023 have been shattered by the conduct of Unbiased Nationwide Election Fee (INEC) who failed woefully to reside as much as its exceptions,” he mentioned.
He known as the electoral fee’s publication of the outcomes as they stand a “rape of democracy”.
Insisting he nonetheless could not “perceive why the electoral umpire was in such a rush to conclude collation and announcement of the consequence, given the variety of complaints and irregularities of bypassing of the BVAS (ed be aware. facial recognition process), failure of importing the IREV (ed be aware. consequence importing system), and unprecedented cancellations and disfranchisement of hundreds of thousands of voters in breach of the voters and the fee’s personal tips”, the polls had been “a rape of democracy.”
Abubakar mentioned he was consulting legal professionals to determine on his subsequent steps.
“Our legal professionals are finding out the outcomes of the election and we await their recommendation… and the social gathering will meet and we’ll determine the following line of motion,” he instructed journalists.
Saturday’s election was Abubakar’s sixth unsuccessful try on the presidency.
