‘It’s a throwback to pre-2015’, Kwankwaso’s NNPP says as party demands cancellation of presidential election results

Thursday, 02 March 2023 06:05

‘It’s a throwback to pre-2015’, Kwankwaso’s NNPP says as party demands cancellation of presidential election results

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New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has called for the cancellation of the result of the 2023 presidential election.

The party made the call on Wednesday at a press conference in Abuja with an address by its National Chairman, Rufai Alkali.

INEC had on Wednesday declared the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, as winner of the 25 February election.

According to the result announced by Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State polled 8,794,726 to defeat his major rivals; Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) who polled 6,984,520 votes and Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) who secured 6,101,533 votes of the 24,965,218 total vote cast.

Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP came a distant fourth with 1,496,687 votes.

Alkali said with the way it conducted the election, INEC had taken the country back to the pre-2015 era.

“We are deeply concerned that going by what had happened on election day, the election umpire has taken our country back to the pre-2015 era of election where everything goes: where voters were deliberately and systematically disenfranchised; where ballot box snatching and ballot box stuffing were the norm; where voter suppression was widespread; where violence and vote-buying were the main deciding factors of the outcome of elections; where security agents openly took side with the ruling party and participated actively in rigging elections..,” he said.

Alkali listed seven fundamental observations made by the party, namely that INEC deliberately undermined NNPP in the process, allowed campaign on election day by President Muhammadu Buhari and others, voter suppression, vote buying, BVAS failure and over voting, lying about IReV sever and elections marred by unprecedented violence.

He, therefore, demanded cancellation of the poll.

“To save our democracy and our country, the present election results must not be accepted by Nigerians and by all friends of Nigeria. We are therefore calling on the immediate suspension of the announcement of results and the cancellation of the 2023 presidential election across the country. New election should be conducted as soon as possible,” he said.