Sen. Jeremiah Useni, gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau, has vowed to challenge the re-election of Gov Simon Lalong for another term.
Lalong was on Sunday declared winner of the governorship seat after the supplementary election on March 23.
Lalong, candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), scored 595,582 votes against Sen. Useni of PDP who got 546,813 votes.
But Useni said that he and his team had gone through both the official results released by INEC and the documents submitted by the party’s field staff and had reservations.
“We have every reason to believe that justice has not been done to our people in this election because there was massive rigging and electoral shortcomings.
“After due consultation, I hereby state that the results announced by INEC is not acceptable to us.
“Consequently, we have requested our legal team to activate all the due processes to reclaim our cherished…
