Uche Secondus, national chairman
of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP,) says international observers declared
the presidential election free and fair out of fear of being killed.
He said the observers said the
election was transparent after being “threatened” with the “body bag” comment
made by Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state.
Addressing a press conference in
Abuja on Friday, the PDP national chairman insisted the election was rigged to
the detriment of the opposition party.
The PDP’s Atiku Abubakar lost to
President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with over
three million votes.
Atiku as well as his party
rejected the result of the election, insisting they have “the real figures” and
would present such in court.
Secondus said the APC and the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) “agreed” on how to take over
southern states which he said are PDP strongholds with the help of the
military.
“They (the international
observers) are not correct. Evidence from across the countries show there was
to the suppression of voters in our stronghold,” he said.
“We are not going to be
approaching the court based on the comment of observers that were threatened.
They were threatened. So, what do you expect them to say? They have to go home
with their lives. They were threatened and can’t talk.
“We have the facts and we will
show them to the world when we get to court. We have enough evidence to
approach the court.”
Secondus accused the military of
interfering with election matters.
According to him, “while the
military was suppressing voters in the PDP strongholds, a different abracadabra
was going on in the northern states especially in Kano, Yobe, Borno and Zamfara
states which recorded high voter turnouts.”
He also said the high incident of
votes cancellation – about one million of them – was “designed to suppress the
margin of victory in PDP controlled states.”
“If the same thing is repeated,
it means that democracy has completely failed in Nigeria and it is a full
military rule,” he added.
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