- Says 1.6m votes claim ridiculous
Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to go ahead with its threat to approach the court to stop the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The ruling party has also described as utterly ridiculous, the claim by the PDP that it won the presidential election with 1.6 million votes, saying the main opposition is still hallucinating over its defeat.
One of the APC governors seeking re-election, Alhaji Muhammed Abubakar of Bauchi State, had obtained a court injunction stopping the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from continuing with the collation of the results of the governorship election in the state.
Following this development, the main opposition party said in a statement on Tuesday that it might be forced to tow a similar line by going to court to prevent the…