The Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the Labour Party of planning to precipitate the crisis to discredit the results of the presidential and national assembly polls.
Director of Public Affairs and Chief Spokesperson, Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, a Senior Advocate, on Sunday alleged that “Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were presently putting undue pressure on some State Resident Electoral Commissioners of INEC to alter the results duly collated in the States before proceeding to Abuja to submit the results.”
“This is despite the fact that the collated results are already well known by the public and the political parties as they were publicly declared, unit by unit and at the State level and electronically transmitted. This is with a view of creating disparities in both the transmitted results and the hard copies and thereby sparking nationwide crises.
Arguing that the results of the election is one of the best so far conducted by INEC in the country, Keyamo We fully salute the resoluteness and steadfastness of these RECS so far and encourage them to continue their resilience in the face of such pressures. We salute INEC for organising, as we can see for now, one of the best elections in Nigeria from time immemorial.
He said the PCC has reliable information that the Labour Party was mobilising for what he described as another ENDSARS protest across the country next week and appealed to the security agencies to rise to the occasion and check those he considered were try “foist their will on the rest fo Nigerians” and “give the State RECs 24-hour close-guard and maximum protection as they travel to submit their results in Abuja.
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AYO ESAN, has been actively reporting and analyzing political events for different newspapers for over 18 years. He has also successfully covered national and state elections in Nigeria since the inception of this democracy in 1999.
