The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have rejected the results of the just concluded Ekiti governorship election that declared All Progressives Congress candidate Kayode Fayemi winner.
The PDP said that it rejected the result in its entirety, describing it as being concocted by the APC and the electoral body, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The PDP noted that security agencies also colluded with the APC and INEC in the governorship election.
“The process, characterized by open alteration of results, brutalization of innocent citizens, barefaced cruelty and intimidation of our members by security agencies, is a brazen assault against democracy and a direct subversion of the will of the people which is completely unacceptable,” Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP national publicity secretary said in a statement.
“The PDP is armed with the details of all manipulations by the APC, who is being aided by security agencies and compromised INEC officials to rig the election, particularly, the audacious alteration and substitution of election results in favour of the APC at the collation centers amidst the brutalization of our agents.
“The PDP also has details of all the polling units where we won, mostly with very wide margin ahead of the APC, only for the security agencies to aid the swapping and alteration of such results with those smuggled in by the APC at the collation centers.
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“It is instructive to state that all the issues we raised ahead of the election, including the conspiracy between the APC, some compromised INEC officials and security agencies; the importation of thugs from other states by the APC; the use of brutal force against our members and the alteration of results in favour of the APC, have all manifested.
The PDP said it holds strongly that there is no way our democracy can survive with an electoral process such as this, being witnessed today in Ekiti state under President Muhammadu Buhari and the current INEC.
“This bald-faced subversion of the will of the people is a clear recipe for a serious crisis and we invite Nigerians and the international community to hold President Buhari and his APC as well as the INEC Chairman and heads of security agencies in Nigeria responsible for any breakdown of law and order in Ekiti state as a result of this election.
“This on-going robbery of the franchise of Ekiti people is a horrible rape of our democracy and most uncharitable of President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC who hugely benefitted from the credible election midwifed by the PDP in 2015,” the main opposition party added.
DECLARATION OF RESULT TO THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, EKITI STATE#EkitiDecide2018 pic.twitter.com/dg2gchgfSk
— INEC Nigeria (@inecnigeria) July 15, 2018
