BREAKING: PDP, LP, ADC Demand Fresh Election, Want INEC Chairman To Step Aside

BREAKING: PDP, LP, ADC Demand Fresh Election, Want INEC Chairman To Step Aside

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP) and African Democratic Congress (ADC) have demanded a fresh election, saying the February 25 presidential election has been “irretrievably compromised”.

The LP National Chairman, Julius Abure, the PDP Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, and their ADC counterpart, Ralph Nwosu, announced this at a joint press conference in Abuja on Tuesday.

They claimed that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials at polling units manipulated Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections by failing to electronically upload results to the commission’s Results Viewing Portal (IReV).

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Abure, who spoke on behalf of the LP, PDP and the ADC, said, “This election is not free and far from being fair”, adding that there are “ongoing cancellation of results from areas of strength of the opposition parties”.

They declared a vote of no confidence on INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu and asked him to immediately step aside for an unbiased person to take over and conduct a fresh election.

The LP, PDP and ADC said the deliberate refusal of the INEC chairman to respect the upload of results electronically as stipulated by Section 60 of the Electoral Act 2022 is unacceptable.

The three parties claimed that INEC’s preliminary results revealed “monumental disparities” between what party agents signed and what INEC officials announced in Abuja.

They claimed that the manual transmission of results jeopardized the election process’s integrity.

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