Uche Secondus, national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP,) has said that his part has enough evidence to upturn the victory of President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in last Saturday’s presidential election.
Mr. Secondus said this at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, maintaining that the election was rigged in favour of the ruling APC.
This comes barely 48 hours after the chairman of the the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Buhari as the winner of the presidential election.
But Secondus said international observers declared the presidential election free and fair out of fear of being killed, following the body bags threat made by Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state.
The PDP chairman alleged that the APC and INEC conspired on how to take over southern states which he said are PDP strongholds with the help of the military.
He accused the military of interfering with election matters.
Secondus said, “They (the international observers) are not correct. Evidence from across the countries show there was to the suppression of voters in our stronghold,” he said.
“We are not going to be approaching the court based on the comment of observers that were threatened. They were threatened. So, what do you expect them to say? They have to go home with their lives. They were threatened and can’t talk.
“We have the facts and we will show them to the world when we get to court. We have enough evidence to approach the court.
“While the military was suppressing voters in the PDP strongholds, a different abracadabra was going on in the northern states especially in Kano, Yobe, Borno and Zamfara states which recorded high voter turnouts.”
He added that votes cancellation of about one million was designed to suppress the margin of victory in PDP controlled states.
Atiku and the PDP had rejected the result of the election, saying they will challenge the outcome in court.
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