The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the cancellation of 157,591 votes from the 86 Polling Units in Nasarawa State.
The main opposition party also accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of tampering with results of various Polling Units in Nasarawa and Sokoto States.
PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus, stated this at a press conference in Abuja on Monday.
In the Presidential election result announced at the National Collation Centre on Monday, APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, had polled 289,903 votes as against 283, 847 garnered by PDP Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
He accused the APC of hacking the INEC Information Technology server and manipulating election results.
He also accused the government of deploying top officials to states to manipulate results in favour of the APC.
He stated: “As results trickled in on the Sunday, February 24th, 2019, clearly putting the PDP in the lead, the ruling party and President Buhari dispatched high-ranking officials to coercively influence outcomes in different geopolitical zones in the country.
“For example: the Minister of the Interior (Abdulrahaman Danbazau), was dispatched to the North West of the country, the Secretary of the Government of the Federation (Boss Mustapha) was dispatched to the North East of the country; while the Attorney General and Minister were dispatched to the South East and South-South regions”.
He called for the release of its campaign spokesperson, Buba Galadima.
Secondus said: “In full view of the watching world, and despite efforts by our great party and its agents to adhere to every laid down provision for the 2019 general elections, the APC in collusion with INEC have taken aggressive steps, mostly through inducements, manipulation and incarcerations, using the elements of state power including the Nigeria Police Force, the Nigerian Army in particular, alongside other organizations including the Department of State Security (DSS) and Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to silence the voices of our long suffering people; this is disheartening, considering the terms of the Peace Accord, which called for impartiality and non-partisanship by members of our security organization with constitutional roles to play during this civic exercise”.
OWEDE AGBAJILEKE, Abuja
