Dirisu Yakubu and Winifred Azubuike
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) said on Tuesday the outcome of Saturday’s governorship elections in Bayelsa and Kogi States cannot stand given the scale of violence that marred the exercise.
The party’s National Working Committee (NWC) also insisted that there is no way the PDP would fold its hands and watch the “mandates clearly given” to its candidates, Engr. Musa Wada in Kogi and Senator Douye Diri in Bayelsa state, taken away by “usurpers and manipulators.”
In a statement issued by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said the nation is still at shock over “the brazen show of violence, where security forces coordinated the invasion of polling units, shooting and killing of voters and carting away of ballot boxes to government facilities where results were altered and fictitious figures given to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare the All Progressives…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
