The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, has cited alleged suppression of voters as one of the reasons he rejected the result announced by the Independent Electoral Commission for Saturday’s presidential election.
He noted in Abuja, at a World Press Conference today, that the outcome of the election did not justify the will of the people.
He said, “That did not happen on Saturday, February 23, 2019. On election day, we saw the implementation of grand theft of the people’s will.
“In Akwa Ibom, for instance, the results showed a statistical impossibility of a 62 per cent drop in voter numbers from the 2015 elections, even where voter registration and PVC collection rates were much higher than in 2015. This is where voter suppression took place.
“Our party made these observations and complaints before the elections that there were plans to implement voter suppression on PDP or opposition strongholds and voter increase in APC strongholds.”
