President Goodluck Jonathan has, for the first time,
questioned the results of the March 28 presidential
election, maintaining that the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) is still the dominant party in Nigeria.
Jonathan had congratulated Muhammadu Buhari,
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC),
before the final result was announced but has now
said he only did it for the unity of Nigeria. He said the
PDP could not have recorded the low scores recorded
for him in some areas, and attributed the loss in Benue
and Kogi to infighting. The president was speaking on Thursday at the
submission of the report of the PDP Presidential
Campaign Organisation (PPCO) at the new banquet
hall of the presidential villa. Jonathan said: “PDP is
still the dominant party. If you look at the result, the
difference is just over two million votes. And if you
look at the areas where it is perceived that PDP
scored so low, PDP couldn’t have gotten those kinds
of scores.” He said now that the elections are over, “I
put the country first”. That Nigeria is at peace is worth
celebrating, Jonathan said, appearing to confirm
reports that some western countries had put ships on
standby to evacuate their citizens in preparation for a
post-election crisis in Nigeria. He said: “The countries
that brought ships, everything around us, waiting to
evacuate their citizens are happy because there was
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