The Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday rejected the results of Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections in Kano State.
The Collation Officer Prof Magaji Garba at about 4am on Tuesday declared President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress the winner of the poll after polling 1,464,4768 votes to defeat his main challenger Atiku Abubakar of the PDP, who scored 391,593 votes.
The APC also dominated the National Assembly polls.
But the chairman of the PDP in the state Rabiu Bichi, who alleged that the elections were marred by multiple voting, also claimed figures were tampered with during collation.
He said, ‘’Naturally, we are unhappy because we were all hopeful that the elections would be conducted peacefully and thank God that some things went right. But many things went wrong. Part of it was the issue of multiple voting, a lack of the use of the card readers and even the intimidation of electoral officials, who had to run for their lives.”
He added, “We cannot accept such inflated figures and that is our stand. So we will go back and analyse the issue.”
