The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the
declaration of Bola Tinubu as the president-elect.
The opposition party said it has commenced legal action to
nullify Tinubu’s victory and ensure that Atiku Abubakar, its candidate is
declared the winner.
On Wednesday, the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) declared Tinubu as the winner of the election that was held on Saturday
and also issued him a certificate of return.
Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of the INEC, said Tinubu secured 8,794,726 votes.
Atiku Abubakar of the PDP had the second-highest figure with
6,984,520 votes, while Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) was next with 6,101,533
votes.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Debo Ologunagba, PDP
spokesperson, said the party “rejects in its entirety the declaration and
return” of Tinubu as the president.
“The PDP demands that INEC immediately withdraws the
certificate of return issued to the presidential candidate of the APC and
cancel the presidential election declaration in line with its powers under
section 65 of the Electoral Act 2022,” the statement reads.
“The party insists
that INEC in declaring the APC Presidential Candidate as the winner, acted
contrary to the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria 1999 (as amended), the Electoral Act 2022 and the INEC Guidelines and
Regulations for the conduct of the 2023 Presidential election.
“The PDP holds that its Presidential Candidate, Atiku
Abubakar clearly won the February 25, 2023, Presidential election having
evidently scored the majority of lawful votes cast by Nigerians at the Polling
Units.
“Sadly, the election was marred by deliberate malpractices
including the non-use of the Bimodal Voters Accreditation System (BVAS) and
INEC’s refusal/failure to transmit directly the results from Polling Units to
its Server/Website in flagrant violation of Section 60 (4)(b) of the Electoral
Act 2022.
“This violation of the Electoral Act by INEC as attested to
by political parties, voters, Nigerians of all walks of life as well as local
and International Observers, paved the way for the alteration, falsification,
switching of results and allocation of figures in favour of the APC.
“Consequently, our
Party and its Presidential Candidate have commenced an action for legal redress
to reclaim our victory in the 2023 Presidential election.”
The PDP asked its supporters to “remain calm, resilient, resolute and steadfast in the defence of democracy and the victory of our Party in the 2023 Presidential elections”.
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