The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged plots to tamper with already collated results of the March 18 governorship election in Adamawa State.
The party accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) and some officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of being behind the plot.
The Informant247 earlier reported that INEC suspended further release of the election results following the cancellation of election results from some 69 polling units in one local government, while fixing April 15 for supplementary election in the affected units.
At a briefing in Abuja on Monday, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, said the PDP candidate, Governor Ahmadu Fintiri was leading his APC challenger, Senator Aisha Binani with 31,299 votes as already declared by INEC, while also alleged that some APC chieftains and INEC officials had earlier attempted to move the collation of the Adamawa election from Yola to Abuja for the purpose of manipulation.
“It has come to the knowledge of our party that the APC and its candidate, having realized that they cannot defeat Governor Fintiri in the 69 polling units, given his popularity and determination of the people, are now putting pressure on INEC to alter already collated and declared results in other polling units where no cases of malpractice or disruption of election took place.
“The PDP alerts the people of Adamawa of fresh plots by the APC, its hired agents and compromised officials of INEC to alter and cancel the already declared results in 21 Local Government Areas where elections have been concluded and declared.
“This is part of APC’s plot to facilitate the manipulation and/or alteration of the already declared results in favour of the APC candidate against the expressed Will of the people.’’
Meanwhile, The All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in Adamawa State, Sen. Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed (Binani) has demanded equity, fairness and justice from the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) on the governorship poll results.
Binani asked INEC to review the election results of the 18″ March Governorship election in a number of Local Government Areas in Adamawa State, while also calling for the total cancellation of the election results in Fufore Local Government Area.
She said if election reviews were conducted in Enugu, Abia and Doguwa Constituency in Kano State, Adamawa should not be left out.
Binani, who made her position known in a statement in Abuja said she had petitioned INEC to press home her demands.
The statement said: “My Lawyer has submitted a petition to the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu calling for a review of the election results of the 18” March Governorship election in a number of Local Government Areas in Adamawa State.
“We are aware INEC ordered reviews for Abia and Enugu Governorship results. A similar review was also done in Doguwa Constituency in Kano State in line with Section 65 of the Electoral Act 2022.
“My Lawyer has similarly applied to the commission for a Certified True Copy of the Bio-modal Verification Authentication System (BVAS) used for 18” March, 2023 for Adamawa State elections.
“This is as a result of series of actions of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Governor of Adamawa, and other persons in disrupting the elections, causing violence, tearing of result sheets, intimidation and harassment of both voters and INEC officials, non-accreditation of thousands of voters by non-use of BVAS, fraudulent upload of state Assembly Constituency results on Governorship IREV, beating of some APC returning officers which caused the hospitalization in Yola of Mallam Ahmadu .J. Hausa, Ward Chairman of Songgari for four days.”
On Fufore Local Government Area, Binani asked for a total cancelation of results from the Local Government Area.
She added: “There was also the collation of results at the Police Station in Fufore to favour PDP under duress. We therefore call for total cancellation of results from the Local Government Area.
“The case for Adamawa State is not in any way different from places where reviews were undertaken.
”lt is for this reason that | am asking for equity, fairness and justice as guaranteed by the 2022 Electoral Act and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
