#NigeriaDecides: Sensing
Defeat, PDP Moves To
Frustrate Announcement Of
Presidential Election Results
Officials of Nigeria’s ruling Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, on Tuesday
moved to frustrate the further
announcement of presidential results.

The electoral agency, INEC, in Abuja had
Monday released the results of 19 states
which showed the candidate of the
opposition All Progressives Congress, APC,
leading by over 2 million votes. Results that
have also been announced by state INEC
officials in other states, yet to be announced
in Abuja, also show the opposition candidate
set to emerge as the elected president.
However, as the announcement of results was
to continue at the International Conference
Centre in Abuja on Tuesday, PDP officials
stampeded the process accusing Mr. Jega of
bias. For several minutes, they prevented the
further announcement of results alleging
among others, that Attahiru Jega, the INEC
boss, refused to collect a petition they sent
about the elections; and that he also gave
unverified results to the APC.
“Jega is not supposed to be bias. Jega is not
suppose to be tribal,” former minister
Godsday Orubebe who was among the
protesters shouted.
He said the Mr. Jega commissioned a fact
finding team on reports of malpractices from
Rivers State but has not acted on the Peoples
Democratic Party complaints on results from
Kano, Katsina, Kaduna and Gombe, which
were won by the opposition.
He was unyielding as Mr. Jega and other
INEC officials appealed to him to allow the
collation to go on.
He said the collation would not continue
except Mr. Jega leaves the venue for his
office to “address PDP complaints.”



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