PDP backs its Kano chapter on cancellation of re-run governorship election

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has backed the call on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the March 23 Kano State Supplementary election.

The state chapter of the APC had made the call earlier over alleged disruption of polls and bloodletting by thugs believed to be supporters of an opposition party.

Kano State APC had since asked INEC to ignore the call saying there were no reasons for the cancellation of the election.

But in a statement by its spokesman, PDP national leadership said “all material facts on the supplementary election in Kano state show that rampaging APC thugs violently took over polling units, attacked and chased away voters and engaged in massive thumb-printing and ballot stuffing for the APC.”

The party said that INEC was already aware that the Police arrested the Kano State Commissioner for Special Duties, Muktar Yakasai, alongside APC thugs he led to disrupt election in Yelwa in Dala Local Government area of the state.

“Also INEC is already aware of how APC thugs attacked voters in polling units in Gama area of Kano state during which four PDP members were feared killed and many more injured before they carted away ballot boxes for stuffing for the APC,” it added.

The PDP cautioned INEC to note that in this circumstance any results they come out with from this convoluted electoral process will be a sham and will surely be rejected by the people of Kano State.

“It is completely reprehensible that the APC and Governor Abdullahi Ganduje would resort to violence and bloodletting as a means to attempt to hold on to power after they have been rejected by the people.

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“The PDP invites Nigerians to note that our party grew democracy for 16 years without watering the quest for power with the blood of the innocent as the APC has done in the 2019 general election.

“The PDP therefore charges INEC to save the nation from crisis by cancelling the Kano Supplementary election, as failure to do so is not in the best interest of our dear nation,” the PDP said.

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