Katsina Election: PDP Accuses Buhari, Heads to Court

The Katsina State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described March 18 Governorship election as intelligently rigged and full of malpractices and vowed to challenge it in court.

Director-General of the PDP campaign council, Dr Mustapha Inuwa who said this while briefing journalists condemned its conduct in totality and accused president Muhammadu Buhari of failing to write his name in the good book of democracy by conducting the worst election ever in Nigeria.2 Terrorists Killed in Katsina For Snatching Electoral Materials

According to Inuwa, the election was marred by voter apathy, intimidation of civil servants, traditional rulers, directing of local government chairmen to return the APC back to power or risk their offices, inducement in all ramification

Inuwa further alleged that the election results were intelligently rigged with votes allocated different from that which was obtainable during the presidential and National assembly elections.

The PDP campaign DG aso expressed fears that with the outcome of the election in katsina, democracy is dead as president Buhari has failed to write his name in the good book of democracy.

Inuwa therefore said, the PDP is rejecting in totality the outcome and the conduct of the election saying, they are heading to court to reclaim their mandate.

On his part, the PDP Governorship candidate in the just concluded election, Senator Yakubu Lado outrightly expressed sadness over the outcome of the election describing it as a rape on the nation’s nascent democracy.


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