All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party were last night locked in a war of words as anxiety rose among political actors over the results. 

Noting returns from the polls, PDP’s presidential candidate Mr Atiku Abubakar in a statement yesterday called for vigilance from supporters saying that he was confident of being declared winner. “With strong shares of vote in South- South, South- East as well as an increased share in South-West and North-Central, we are very pleased with the progress PDP has made,” Abubakar’s spokesman, Mr Phrank Shaibu said in a statement early yesterday. 

The statement said with PDP’s high technology, cloud-based SVC system – capable of collating in real-time results from the 176,000 voting points across the nation, the presidential candidate could boldly assure his supporters that victory was at hand. 

“The people of Nigeria can take solace that very soon the living nightmare of the last four years will come to an end so that together we will get Nigeria working again,” the statement read in part. 

PDP had followed up with a call on INEC to immediately declare the result, a move immediately denounced by Buhari campaign. 

APC Presidential Campaign Council in a statement issued by its spokesman, Mr. Festus Keyamo in which it was claimed that PDP was preparing to declare what he called as fake results as authentic. 

The statement further called for the arrest of one of Abubakar’s spokespersons, Mr Buba Galadima who it claimed had prepared a short video in furtherance of that move.

Vanguard