File photo: A voter casts his ballot at a polling station in a IDP camp in Maiduguri on February 23, 2019 as Nigerians began voting for a new president after a week-long delay that has raised political tempers, sparked conspiracy claims and stoked fears of violence. – Some 120,000 polling stations began opening from 0700 GMT, although there were indications of a delay in the delivery of some materials and deployment of staff, AFP reporters said. (Photo by AFP)
By Dirisu Yakubu
ABUJA-The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is bent on heading to court to seek redress in the recently conducted Presidential elections, saying records at its disposal show that the exercise was manipulated in favour of President Muhammadu Buhari.
President Buhari, Aisha vote at the Presidential and National Assembly Elections at Kofar Baru Polling Unit 003 in Daura Katsina State on 23rd Feb 2019Briefing newsmen at the party’s Presidential Campaign headquarters on Friday, national chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus said despite a meeting between the PDP candidate, Atiku Abubakar and the National Peace Committee, the party would go to court to demand for justice.
https://newlive.vanguardngr.com/2018/12/apc-forcing-pdp-governors-to-a-secret-deal-secondus/
Secondus accused the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government of deliberate harassment of the electorate in PDP strongholds during the polls, adding that as a result, voters who ordinarily would have turned up to vote stayed away from the exercise.
https://newlive.vanguardngr.com/2019/03/updated-apc-suspends-amosun-okorocha-okechukwu-usani/
For the umpteenth time, the party said “authentic figures” obtained by its agents at various polling units showed that its candidate, Alhaji Atiku clearly won the election.
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