LP rejects Presidential Election results  in Bauchi

From Paul Orude Bauchi

The Labour Party (LP) has threatened to reject the results.of the Saturday’s Presidential election in Bauchi State citing irregularities such as over voting and alleged rigging.

Chairman of the party in the State, Barrister Husseini Saraki, made the disclosure at the Professor Mahmoud  Yakubu conference hall  Independent  National Electoral Commission (INEC) Collation Centre Bauchi  for the Presidential Election held in Saturday February 25.

The meeting was presided over by the Collation Officer, Professor Abdulkarim Sabo Mohammed, the Vice Chancellor of Federal University, FUD, Dutse, Jigawa State.

Saraki lamented that the election was manipulated to disenfranchised many voters and supporters of the LP in the State.

“The whole election is fraught with many irregularities and logistics issues that were tailored to reduce the votes of our Presidential candidate Mr Peter Obi,” Saraki said.

“It was  either BVAS were not provided on time or INEC officials were not mobilised on time

“There were a particular polling unit in Kirfi where an iNEC Adhoc staff was caught trying to alter the results. There is a video regarding this”

“We will not allow our name to be strained. We want everything to be done properly.

” For instance in Bauchi Local Government we reviewed lots of complaints and of you look at the demeanor of INEC  staff have confirmed that there are issued of over voting.

“By what has been prevented we are not satisfied with what has been presented and the areas we have comparative advantage , we have been sideline. As far as we are concerned we are not accepting this results until something is done to amend it”