Rerun Election: Adamawa PDP Sparks Fire, Warns INEC against announcing contrary results

….accuses APC for cooking up fake results and calls for declaration of their guber candidate

During a round-up Press conference in Adamawa State Government House, Yola, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has warned the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) of announcing a contrary or unacceptable result of the coming Saturday rerun election.

The Adamawa Presidential and Governorship campaign of the PDP having Hon Awwal D Tukur as the Director General stressed that they will never trade the mandate of the people of the state.

Awwal with his campaign members while addressing journalists said the votes that INEC declared inconclusive were credible enough to have declared Right Hon. Ahmadu Fintiri, governor elect.

He however the 18th Governorship election was a good outing that successfully elected Governor Ahmadu Fintiri with clear margin of over 31,000 votes ahead of the APC candidate.

But unfortunately INEC failed to do that thereby declaring the elections inclusive with re runs to be held in some wards and 69 units of the state.

“Despite the fact that the election of the governor was inconclusive and many attempts were made by the APC and some partisan electoral officers to steal our mandate, the people of Adamawa state and members of our great party, PDP however remained calm and composed.” Awwal said

PDP further accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the past weeks that they have had to cope with wrong allegations made by the opposition party of deliberate perpetuated to gerrymandering votes and cause mayhem.

Awwal while responding to questions by Journalists said the vile attempt and insincerity to steal the people’s mandate was however massively resisted and clearly rejected by the voice of those that truly understood and defended the right principles of democratic fair-play.

Awwal commended the media organizations, Well meaning Nigerians,members of the international community and election observers to quickly put on notice the wrong step to announce the APC Governorship candidate as winner who cooked up and circulated fake results ahead of the formal announcement by INEC.

He said the APC propaganda of winning the last election was also understood by well meaning Nigerians as an outright gender manipulation to wrongly indict the conscience of the free minded good people of Adamawa state.

“With this background in place as we lookup to the rerun elections in two days time, I wish to express a kind appeal as the Director General of the state campaign council for PDP.

“I make bold to state that while we call for calm engagement and participation of the people and citizens of the state, let us again get to prove to the world that APC did not and can not win this rerun by popular voting.

“That is also to sound a word of caution that the PDP will not in anyway also fold its arms and allow rigging and any violent procedure to undermine the people’s votes and mandate.

“Clearly we are ready to use all the necessary and available legal and constitutional means to secure our mandate.

“With this in mind, as we prepare for the rerun, our resolve is to win through due democratic means. ” Awwal said

He continued to say that :”It should be on record also that the PDP knows its legitimate ways and will definitely deploy the right and available ways to vote and protect the party’s supporters.

“At this juncture, it is noteworthy to appeal and encourage voters to come out and vote our dear governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri for continuity and consolidation of development.

“This is also to let INEC, our umpire know that our party will be timely and ready to inspect and scrutinize all available sensitive electoral material(s) for transparency and effective monitoring.

“In the same manner, while our great political party commends the security agents for the services rendered in the previous elections, it is again timely and most desirable to encourage them to protect and guide the voters with high sense of professionalism they are known for.

“Finally, my dear ladies and gentlemen of the press, You need to be up and doing…report the facts as you have always done. We hope you join us soon to celebrate the anticipated victory and declaration of Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Fintiri as governor on the 15th April, 2023.”