APC warns of attempt to announce fake election results
(Nigeria) The All Progressives Congress, APC, has warned
against any attempt to tamper with the results of the elections that were
concluded nationwide on Saturday, saying Nigerians have voted peacefully and
massively and they know who they have voted for.
APC in a statement in Lagos on Sunday by its National
Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said that it has the authentic
results from every polling unit where voting took place on Saturday, and will
not accept anything contrary to those signed results.
It decried the dangerous kite now being flown by the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, through some of their paid media channels, seeking to
appropriate unearned victories across the nation.
''We have always said we will accept the result of any free,
fair and transparent elections. We stand by that avowal. However, what we will
not accept - and which we are sure Nigerians themselves will reject - is any
move to rewrite the results and thwart the will of the people under any guise.
We will not accept that.
''We have heard of the desperate moves to cancel the results
in areas where the APC has beaten the PDP embarrassingly. Nigerians will
definitely not accept that,'' APC said.
The party said it is aware of the ongoing efforts to force
Electoral Officers and Presiding Officers in Imo State, some of whom are being
picked up by the military as we write, to rewrite the results of the elections
in the state.
''We have the results from every polling unit in Imo State
and we know that we have won in over 80 per cent in the presidential election.
So there must be no shenanigans,'' it warned.
APC also said the same attempts are being made in Sokoto,
Enugu, Ekiti, Ondo, Lagos and other states, wondering why anyone will be seeking
to reverse the results that are already settled.
''In the Nsukka Local Government Area, Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC officials, instead of collating results, handed over
the exercise to PDP Nsukka zone to write. They holed up inside ADADA HOUSE (a
Local Government guest house) to write results and change figures, and were
provided with security by the police. APC candidates and agents were chased
away. In collaboration with INEC, they refused to let the card readers function
and no result sheets came to most polling booths.
''In Lagos, they have yet to announce the result of the
Apapa Local Government which has been ready since yesterday, apparently in a
move to manipulate the outcome. Those who voted will not agree with any attempt
to steal their votes,'' the party warned.
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