The governorship election results in Kaduna State declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), announcing Senator Uba Sani of the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate as governor-elect has been rejected by seven other candidates in the state.
The governorship candidates who were among the nine who endorsed the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Isah Kudan prior to Saturday’s governorship election include the Young Peoples Party, Allied Peoples Movement, Action Peoples Party, National Rescue Movement, Action Alliance, All Progressive Grand Alliance, and the Action Democratic Party.
The candidates, under the aegis of ‘Rescue and Rebuild Gubernatorial Candidates Forum,’ alleged that there was massive cancellation of votes in most local government areas in the state.
The chairman of the forum and governorship candidate of the YPP, Ambassador Sanin Yaya, in Kaduna on Wednesday, said they would engage legal practitioners to fight their battle to the end in order for the right thing to be done by the INEC.
He said “the purported election result declared by INEC is unacceptable to us and many as well, ” and they called on the INEC to do the needful on the purported result announced which declared the APC Candidate as winner in the just concluded election.
“Again, we wish to state clearly that in many polling units in all the local government areas, Form EC40G was filled by Returning Officers and the number of registered voters who collected their Permanent Voters Card in these polling units is more than the margin of lead/win in the governorship election in Kaduna state.
Yaya told the INEC to postpone the announcement of results of the governorship election in the state until a supplementary election is conducted in the affected polling units where elections were cancelled.
He added, “As well, in every massive cancellation of election result conducted in many polling units during the governorship election in almost all the local governments in the state, especially in Kudan LGA where the election results in two Wards were not entered in the collated governorship election result despite the fact that election was conducted in the polling units of the two wards and the result posted on INEC Result Viewing portal.
“Therefore, our position is that INEC has been compromised by the ruling party despite the fact that they are an umpire that is entrusted to hold a free, fair and credible election.
“We the under-listed political parties are calling on INEC to adhere to the rule of Law, to with immediate effect cancel the governorship result declared earlier.
“Accept the assurances of our effort to save Democracy while we await INEC’s immediate action.”
