Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday
moved to frustrate the further announcement of
presidential results.
Monday released the results of 19 states which
showed the candidate of the opposition All
Progressives Congress, APC, leading by over 2
million votes. Results that have also been announced
by state INEC officials in other states, yet to be
announced in Abuja, also show the opposition
candidate set to emerge as the elected president.
However, as the announcement of results was to
continue at the International Conference Centre in
Abuja on Tuesday, PDP officials stampeded the
process accusing Mr. Jega of bias. For several
minutes, they prevented the further announcement of
results alleging among others, that Attahiru Jega, the
INEC boss, refused to collect a petition they sent
about the elections; and that he also gave unverified
results to the APC.
“Jega is not supposed to be bias. Jega is not suppose
to be tribal,” former minister Godsday Orubebe who
was among the protesters shouted.
He said the Mr. Jega commissioned a fact finding
team on reports of malpractices from Rivers State
but has not acted on the Peoples Democratic Party
complaints on results from Kano, Katsina, Kaduna
and Gombe, which were won by the opposition.
He was unyielding as Mr. Jega and other INEC
officials appealed to him to allow the collation to go
on.
He said the collation would not continue except Mr.
Jega leaves the venue for his office to “address
PDP complaints.”
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