The Jigawa state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the results of the governorship election in five out of the 27 local government areas in the state .
The local government areas are Kazaure, Yankwashi, Birnin Kudu, Gwaram and Dutse.
The PDP agent at the State Collection Centre, Mr Aminu Abubakar, made this known on Sunday in Dutse.
The results had been presented to the Returning Officer, Prof. Zaiyan Umar of Federal University, Birnin Kebbi by the local government collation officers.
Abubakar said the INEC “unjustifiably cancelled results of more than 22 polling units in Birnin Kudu LGA alone, where the PDP candidate came from.
He said the results were characterised by “a lot of abnormalities” in the five LGAs and called on the returning officer to declare the election in those areas inconclusive.
The PDP agent alleged that the abnormalities committed in those areas were deliberate, because the areas were stronghold of the party.
But the All Progressives Congress (APC) agent, Dr Abdullahi Kainuwa, dismissed the objection raised by the PDP.
He said there were rules and procedures provided by the Electoral Act for tackling such issues which the PDP should have followed after the collation of results.
Kainuwa said it was very clear that the PDP was fretting having realised that it had lost the governorship election.
Responding, the returning officer said all the issues raised by the PDP agent will be given attention immediately after the full collation of the governorship election results.
