AC ACCUSES PDP OF ELECTORAL FRAUD IN ADAMAWA GUBER POLL

Abubakar Atiku

The Action Congress (AC) has described the re-run governorship election in Adamawa State last Saturday as yet another big farce with the result sold to the highest bidder by the very institutions charged with conducting a free and fair election.

 In a statement issued in Yola today by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, it said that never in the history of elections in Adamawa state has one party ever won all the local government councils given the diversity and plurality of values, religion, ethnic and cultural mix of the state.

 The so-called victory by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), accoding to AC, did not reflect the true wishes of the Adamawa people who trooped out in large numbers to vote for the AC and its candidate in the election, Ibrahim Bapetel.

 According to AC "The results declared by INEC did not reflect what happened on the ground throughout Adamawa State on Saturday.  In due course, the AC will provide its tally of the results from all the polling stations and Nigerians will be shocked by the depravity of the PDP-led federal government."

 The party added that once again, the PDP government has shown its determination to foist a one-party rule on Nigerians by rigging itself to power in every state of Nigeria.  The sham re-run election has also proved the hollowness of the government’s much touted electoral reform, rule of law and war against corruption.

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 "We expect the PDP, INEC and their accomplices to dismiss us as bad losers.  But by the time we release the full and sordid details of what transpired the public auctioning of Adamawa state governorship seat, Nigerians will be shocked to their bone marrows at the complicity from the highest echelons of government, the PDP, INEC and other institutions entrusted with the conduct of the election."

 "However, we wish to assure our teeming supporters and all true democrats worldwide that all attempts by the INEC and the PDP led-federal government to humiliate the AC and its leaders as well as the country’s judicial system which ordered the re-run election and defined the parameters for its conduct will fail ultimately."

 "Nigerians need, and indeed richly deserve, an opposition party and an alternative to the monstrous and greedy behemoth that is the PDP. The AC is fully prepared to play this role."

 "The party wishes to restate its confidence and continued support for its leader and presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and its governorship candidate in Adamawa State, Ibrahim Bapetel."

 "The struggle to enthrone true democracy in Nigeria is a long and difficult one and the AC is ready for the long haul.  The party will continue to resist all efforts to make our dear country a one-party state."