PDP rejects Magnus Abe, demands fresh election

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has questioned the victory of Magnus Abe, senator-elect of Rivers east, in Saturday’s rerun election, demanding a fresh exercise.

Dayo Adeyeye, spokesman of the Ahmed Makarfi faction of the party, said this in a statement.

Adeyeye alleged that the military and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) worked against the PDP in the election.

“The result which declared Magnus Abe of the APC winner is an unprecedented massive manipulation of the electoral process in active connivance with the security agencies. The whole world knows that elections did not take place in the Rivers south east senatorial district,” he said in a statement.

“We therefore reject the declaration of Magnus Abe with the fabricated results, and demand INEC to conduct election in that constituency. We promise to avail ourselves every opportunity to seek redress on this matter in the interest of democracy and that of the constituents who are denied their right to vote.”

Adeyeye challenged INEC to declare results of the election in the remaining areas.

He said information from polling units shows that the PDP has won the remaining two senatorial districts, and some federal and state constituencies.

“The results that are being withheld are: Rivers west senatorial district, Andoni/Opobo-Nkoro federal constituency and Andoni state house of assembly constituency,” he said.

“We have the results declared at the various polling units which show that Senator Osinakachukwu Ideozu also of the PDP won the Rivers west senatorial district.

“Equally, we make bold to state that Hon. Abiante and Ikunyi Ibani both of the PDP won their respective elections into Andoni/Opobo-Nkoro Federal Constituency and Andoni State Constituency, respectively.

“INEC is currently witholding these results in cohort with security agencies to pave way for the APC to manipulate the outcome of the elections. We urge INEC to immediately release the affected results intact. Anything short of this is unacceptable.

“We again condemn in totality, the adverse role of the Nigerian Army, the Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and other security agencies during this re-run elections in Rivers state. It was a nightmare and a complete reversal of their constitutional mandates of safeguarding the territorial integrity of the country and the protection of lives and properties.

“There are incontrovertible evidence that the security agencies worked for the APC against the interest of the Rivers people. They followed the directives of the APC Chairman, John Oyegun and Governor Ganduje of Kano State during the mega rally of the APC. They killed, they maimed, they harassed all in the desperate need to help the APC win at all cost.”