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Addressing journalists during a press conference, yesterday, the spokesman of the coalition and state chairman of the Nigerian Elementary Progressive Party (NEPP), Alhaji Musa Aliyu, alleged that the elections were marred by myriad of flaws.
This, he said, rendered its results null, void and unacceptable.
Aliyu, who was also a governorship candidate was flanked by the state chairmen of the political parties.
He said: “We, the members of the above coalition, have vehemently rejected the outcome of the 2019 governoship elections as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commissin (INEC).
“Our decision was rightly informed by the fact that the elections were marred by myriad of flaws, which had rendered the results null, void and unacceptable.
“The members of the coalition have observed that the polls were characterised by acts of violence, massive vote buying, intimidation, non use of card reader machines as well as duplication of voting in polling units where the polls were earlier conducted, which contravened electoral laws and the constitution of the country.
“With these reasons and more, we are also in total support of the action of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to seek legal redress for the injustices meted to it, its gubernatorial candidate and his running mate.”
Regardless, the People’s Democtatic Party (PDP) in Sokoto State, has asked APC and its governorship candidate to accept defeat.
In the statement issued by PDP’s spokesman in Sokoto, Abdullahi Yusuf, the party also accused the opposition party of trying to rig the election to its favour, through the use of political thugs and vote buying.
“We wish to express our gratitude to Allah (SWT) on the victory bestowed on us with a margin of 342 votes. We want to put it on record that a candidate will be regarded as duly elected into the office of governor of the state where he has the highest number of votes cast at the election. Thus, the constitution is explicit about the winner of the election in Section 179 (2).
“Even though we had won the election based on the first result announced by the INEC during the March 9, 2019 gubernatorial election, the opposition insisted that INEC must declare the elections inconclusive.
“With the declaration of the election as inconclusive as a favour to the opposition APC, the party used the period to garner the support of neighboring states and sourced over N5 billion through the treasuries of two states of Zamfara and Kebbi as well as some selected Federal Government agencies.
Meanwhile, the ruling APC in Adamawa has called on its supporters in the state to get prepared and participate in the governorship supplementary election today.
The State Organising Secretary of the party, Alhaji Ahmed Lawal, gave the directive, yesterday, in Yola, the state capital.
Lawal said the party reviewed its earlier decision to boycott the poll and had resolved to fully participate in the poll.
He, however, said in spite of INEC’s refusal to heed their call for a rerun, the APC would still win the election.
He appealed to the APC family and supporters not to be deterred by INEC’s action and urged them to go out en mass to vote for the candidate of the party.
“Having consulted all the party stakeholders, we’ve resolved to participate in the supplementary election fixed for tomorrow (today).”
source: www.sunnewsonline.com/28-political-parties-reject-sokoto-guber-election/