The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP) and African Democratic Congress (ADC) have demanded a fresh presidential election.
The parties who asserted that the February 25 presidential election has been “irretrievably compromised” made this known at a joint press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, by LP National Chairman, Julius Abure; the PDP chairman, Iyorchia Ayu; as well as their ADC counterpart, Ralph Nwosu.
They alleged that Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections were manipulated by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) at polling units by their failure to upload results electronically on the commission’s Results Viewing Portal (IReV).
The statement reads; “This election is not free and far from being fair, there are ongoing cancellation of results from areas of strength of the opposition parties.
“We declared a vote of no confidence on INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu and he should immediately step aside for an unbiased person to take over and conduct a fresh election.
“The deliberate refusal of the INEC chairman to respect the upload of results electronically as stipulated by Section 60 of the Electoral Act 2022 is unacceptable.
“The result so far by INEC showed monumental disparities between what the party agents signed and what INEC officials announced in Abuja.
“The manual transmission of results compromised the integrity of the election process,” the statement added.
Recall that two agents of the flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, stormed out of the National Collation Centre for the presidential election results at the International Conference Centre in Abuja on Monday over dissatisfaction on the process of the collation of results.