PDP demands INEC chairman’s resignation, investigation

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday demanded the resignation of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, for alleged manipulation of last month’s presidential election result.

The commission had on March 1 declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as winner of the election after he polled 8,794, 726 votes to defeat his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival, Atiku Abubakar, and 16 others in the exercise.

Atiku garnered 6,984,520 votes to finish ahead of the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, who got 6,101,533 votes.

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Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) ended in fourth position with 1,496,687 votes.

However, Atiku and Obi had rejected the outcome of the election and vowed to challenge it in court.

The duo had since assembled their legal teams in a bid to reclaim their allegedly stolen mandate using the instrumentality of the law.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, who made the call at a media briefing in Abuja, also asked the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to invite Yakubu for questioning.

He alleged that INEC deliberately refused to transmit the results from the polling units as provided by the Electoral Act.

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