The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is insisting on “the winning results already delivered at the polling units for the candidate of the people, Atiku Abubakar.” It warned on Sunday evening that Nigerians will not accept any figures except what was declared and collated from the polling units.

The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said it is already aware that the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency has been mounting pressure on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and dispatching officials to change results in Rivers, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Kogi, Bauchi, Cross River, Borno, Yobe and Edo states, among others, “in a frenzy to allocate fictitious figures for the defeated President Buhari.”

According to Ologbondiyan, “Pathetically, the Buhari Presidency is also threatening the South-East state governors to change results and carve a 25% for Mr. President, a scheme that has already failed.

“In Bauchi State, we are aware of the plots to move thump-printed ballot papers and fabricated results from Bauchi to Dass Local Government Area to upturn PDP’s victory in the results already delivered and announced at the polling units in the area.

“This is why the electoral officials have been delaying moving the results for final collation and announcement. If this plot fails, the APC plans to void the results for Dass.

“In spite of all these, our party assures Nigerians that the hope for a new government led by Atiku Abubakar, is already manifest.

“Our agents and indeed, Nigerians, already have the results as delivered at the polling units and are not ready to accept anything to the contrary. President Buhari and the APC should therefore quietly come to terms with the fact that they have been defeated.”

PDP cautioned INEC to respect the laws and electoral guidelines by upholding and declaring results from the polling units as expressed by Nigerians on Saturday.

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