Lagos – The victory of Nigeria’s ruling party in the weekend presidential polls is a “rape of democracy, says the candidate from the main opposition party.
Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party came second with 6.9 million votes, behind Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, who polled over eight million votes. Peter Obi of Labour came third with 6.1 million votes.
Abubakar said the election “was grossly flawed in every material particular and as such, must be challenged by all of us”, calling the electoral commission’s publication of the results as they stand a “rape of democracy”.
PDP’s Atiku Abubakar slams INEC, claiming the electoral body failed “woefully” and conducted the worst election in the country’s history. #CTVTweets pic.twitter.com/7C6Aj0Kda6
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Abubakar said he was consulting lawyers to decide on his next steps.
“Our lawyers are studying the results of the election and we await their advice… and the party will meet and we’ll decide the next line of action,” he told journalists.
Saturday’s election was Abubakar’s sixth unsuccessful attempt at the presidency.
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Source: AFP
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