PDP warns INEC against tampering with declared results In Bauchi

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has cautioned the leadership of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to tamper with already declared governorship election results in 14 local government areas of Bauchi State.

The party gave the warning following alleged attempts by the Professor Mahmood Yakubu-led commission to tamper with and further cancel already tallied and declared results in the election.

In a statement by its national spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Friday, the PDP warned that “with the charged atmosphere in Bauchi State and the level of awareness attained by the people of the state, any attempt by anybody to touch the already announced results will attract serious consequences to the conspirators.”

The statement read in detail, “Our party already have full information of plots by certain known top ranking officials of INEC, who have been bribed with huge sums of money by the All Progressives Congress (APC), to widen the scope of result cancellation beyond Tafawa Balewa to 14 more Local Government Areas and hike the number of cancelled votes from 70,000 to 184, 555.

“To achieve this, INEC has been instructed by the APC to cancel already declared results in 230 polling units in 15 LGAs, in the state, cause confusion and pave the way for the APC to manipulate the March 23 Supplementary elections.

“Seeing that our party, the PDP, and our candidate, Senator Bala Mohammed, are inevitably coasting to victory, being that Tafawa Balewa is home to the PDP, the APC is instructing INEC to cancel elections in more local governments where it plans to manipulate the processes and allocate fictitious results for the APC at the March 23 polls.

“The PDP states that such a wicked plot cannot stand, as the people of Bauchi state have fully rallied themselves for a firm resistance.

“Our party is already in possession of a leaked document from the Bauchi INEC office, which exposed details of this wicked plot against the people of Bauchi state.

“This plot further justifies our stance that even the cancellation of Tafawa Balewa results was orchestrated by the APC and INEC in the ignoble bid to forcefully rob the people of Bauchi state of their choice of the PDP candidate, Senator Bala Mohammed, as their governor.”

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PDP candidate Mohammed, is already leading with over 4,000 votes after results of 19 LGAs were collated and announced.

The party had also scored 40,000 valid votes against the APC’s 29,000 in Tafawa Balewa LGA, where INEC later cancelled election.

According to PDP, with the above result, it is clear that it will still win the supplementary election in Tafawa Balewa LGA on March 23.

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