The women’s wing of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State, is expressing its displeasure over the governorship election results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the state.
The aggrieved women who took to the streets on Thursday, were armed with placards carrying different inscriptions such as, “No election rigging”, “Kaduna State has spoken”, “Give us who we voted”, “Kaduna people elected, INEC selected.”
A former women leader in the state, Aisha Ibrahim, disclosed to journalists that residents of the state voted for Kudan and wondered why the electoral body favoured Sani of the APC.
“The people of Kaduna State came out on Saturday, March 18 to massively vote for Isah Ashiru, the PDP gubernatorial candidate. Everybody heard the result and wondered why INEC should change the result in favour of the APC candidate,” Ibrahim said.
Also, a former House of Assembly member, Maria Dogo, said INEC should rectify the election results from polling units.
“INEC should refer itself to the server to get the correct result of the election from every polling unit, to avoid any controversy.
“It is unbecoming of INEC and we will employ every legal means to reclaim our mandate. Nigerians are tired of being taken back 200 years instead of progressing and so, they cannot continue robbing us of our choices,” she said.
INEC had declared Uba Sani of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of the March 18 election after polling a total of 730,002 votes while his closest rival, Isah Kudan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), scored 719,196 votes.
The Labour Party candidate, Jonathan Asake, polled 58,283 to come third while the New Nigeria Peoples Party candidate, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi, came a distant fourth with 21,405 votes.
The state chairman of the PDP, Felix Hyet, had described the APC victory as “daylight robbery.”
He alleged that INEC was complicit in denying the people of the state what they actually voted for, and was inconsistent in declaring results.