The losing candidate in Saturday's gubernatorial election and Tuesday's supporters vowed to protest the election results and challenge the results in court. There were protests, just as Kano State's All Progressive Congress gave the Independent National Electoral Commission seven days to declare the state's gubernatorial election inconclusive. The results show that the APC won in 15 states, the PDP in 8 states, and the New Nigerian People's Party in Kano State.
Protests by PDP members in Ogun state came when a Nigerian Security and Civil Defense officer fired into the air to disperse protesters who stormed his INEC office in the state capital Abeokuta. , escalated into riots.
A large number of PDP members led by party candidate Oladippo Adebutu marched to his INEC office, where Adebutu lost to APC candidate, Governor Dapo Abiodun, of the election. rejected the results. However, chaos erupted when
security forces prevented party members from entering the premises. During the chaos, NSCDC officers opened fire and dispersed the protesters.
Angry protesters chased him and threw stones at him as he fled while angrily walking towards him.
Several security personnel, including State Department officials, were injured during the brawl. He held placards that read, "You have betrayed the people of Ogun", "Election fraud will not work" and "INEC should respect the people". 'Inec should stop prejudice', 'Ogun election was inconclusive, INEC corrects itself', etc.
However, the protesters were denied access to INEC offices by heavily armed security forces.
At the entrance to the office, Mr Adebutu said he had come to the commission to submit a petition.
He claimed the protesters would not leave the scene until Election Commission officials dealt with them. He said he had submitted several letters of protest to the committee, demanding re-voting at the polling stations.
He said it was disappointing that the security services were being used against people's wishes and warned that the development could lead to another #Endsars protest.
"We are here to protest, but unfortunately we were confronted by security guards sporadically firing into the air and trying to disperse us," Adebutu said.
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The same applies to Ogun State. increase.
Adebutu then held a closed-door meeting with some of his INEC officials. After the meeting, Adebutu urged his supporters to remain law-abiding.
APC Governor Abdullahi Sule defeated his PDP candidate David Ombugadu and others in his Nasarawa state where more than 500 women from the state's 13 municipal districts dressed in black, Raid the provincial capital Rafia to cancel Saturday's gubernatorial elections.
The PDP's provincial women's leader, Stella Oboshi, led women from her party and other political parties in a peaceful protest calling for the election to be annulled.
She explained that the reason for her protest was that INEC had announced the winner of the gubernatorial election amid controversy over results from the Gayam and Ciroma constituencies in the provincial capital.
Oboshi said, "What we are doing today is a peaceful protest, which is allowed by our democracy. The reason for our protest is that in Nasarawa, two constituencies
"Governor and House elections were held on the same day, at the same time, and with the same ballot. However, the gubernatorial election has been announced and the House election has not been announced at this time as it has been declared inconclusive.
“The results of the Gayam and Ciroma constituencies of the Rafia LGA were included in the gubernatorial election results announced by INEC, but if the parliamentary elections in the same Elections should also be declared inconclusive
INEC calls previously announced gubernatorial elections inconclusive, although she called on supporters of the PDP and other opposition parties in the state to keep calm
Kano State APC also rejected the result INEC should have declared the exercise inconclusive. Claimed
INEC declared NNPP's Abba Kabiru Yusuf the winner of the gubernatorial election on Monday morning.
Defeated Nasir Gauna, an APC candidate.
State APC chairman Abdullahi Abba dismissed the findings at a news conference on Tuesday.
His APC, represented by party legal adviser Abdul Adamu Fagge, noted that the canceled votes were more than the spread between the first and second parties, and the election was inconclusive. argued that it should be declared
INEC also drew attention to the nullification of 16 provincial elections on grounds of violence, although the same votes were taken into account when compiling gubernatorial elections.
The party thus expressed its disappointment with the statement, highlighting that the two elections were held on the same day, time, place and circumstances.
The party gave INEC his seven-day ultimatum to declare the results inconclusive.
Plateau APC
His APC gubernatorial candidate for Plateau State, Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda, has vowed to challenge the election results, which he lost to his PDP candidate, Caleb Mutfwang.
Yilwatda, speaking to his supporters at Jos on Tuesday, said: We voted honestly. We have not cheated anywhere. Two municipalities paid him the difference of $200,000, which he knew was fraudulent. Cases of low voter turnout were reported, yet voter turnout he rose more than 100%. How does low voter turnout translate into high voter turnout? We challenge the results in court.
But PDP Secretary of State for Public Affairs John Akans said in an interview that the APC candidate is hopeless.
The rejection of the election results also dominated the debate at his PDP's Kaduna state branch on Tuesday.
The party rejected the declaration of APC candidate Senator Uba Sani as governor-elect of Kaduna state.
According to a report, an INEC federal returnee, Professor Lawal Suleiman Bilbis of Usman Danfodio University in Sokoto, said Sani won his 730,002 votes, his closest rival Isah Ashiru of his PDP. announced that he had 719,196 votes.
However, at a press conference in Kaduna on Tuesday, PDP national leader Felix Hayett described the APC's victory as a 'daytime robbery'.
He claimed that INEC was complicit in denying the people's vote and that the results were inconsistent.
“This is due to a conspicuous lack of transparency on the part of INEC officials and justice not being served.
“The PDP confirmed the outcome of this and reject Sen's statement. On March 18, 2023, Mr. Uvasani was elected as the winner of the gubernatorial election held in our dear Kaduna state. "We will reject the consequences and will take all legal means to restore the rights of the people of Kaduna State." The numbers kept changing. At that time, people said that Lele and Kudan had returned. to decide what? another result or something? Whatever we have seen, declared, we believe has been assigned.
"This is because INEC has a server, the results are sent to that server, and that server is under INEC's control and is maintained." There is no reason for INEC not to use real results on their servers to avoid this early morning robbery given to the people of Kaduna State," he added.
Meanwhile, the Akwaibom province branch of the NNPP expressed dissatisfaction with the gubernatorial election results announced by the Electoral Commission, saying they did not reflect the wishes of the people of Akwaibom.
The party said what INEC announced on Sunday was "his PDP election results purchased by the state". State whether the parties will challenge the outcome in court.
Here is part of the statement:
"Rather, what INEC announced were the results of a bribed election that had nothing to do with the true desires of our people."
On Tuesday, the Enugu State All-Party Advisory Committee called on the Independent National Electoral Commission to immediately release the results of the March 18 gubernatorial election.
IPAC state chairman Edwin Alor, chief of staff, told reporters that the law does not allow INEC to review aggregated findings.
On March 20, INEC stopped counting further results in his two local counties in the state – Nkanu East and Nsukka – citing allegations of over-voting and other irregularities in the elections. Remember what you did
Alor has requested the state resident election commissioners and state election commissioners to immediately announce the results of the election and declare the winner effective immediately.
He said:
CLO advised his INEC
Meanwhile, the Civil Liberties Organization asked INEC to resolve the election "blockade" immediately.
Aloysius Atta, president of the CLO Southeast Zone, told Enugu journalists INEC must act quickly and save the state from a preventable crisis.
Attah warned INEC state returnees, resident election commissioners and other officials on the commission not to allow themselves to be pressured to thwart the will of the people.
"Boldly subverting the will of the people and relying on the provocative slogan 'If you're not satisfied, go to court' is no longer acceptable in Enugu and will no longer be accepted throughout the South East," he said. rice field.
The Speaker said that people deserve such leaders as they have approved through a democratic voting process, and that "they will no longer be deprived of their guaranteed democratic rights."