The Coalition of United Political Parties has alleged that there were plans to cancel the presidential election in some area councils of the Federal Capital Territory.
According to the opposition coalition, that is the strategy by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the FCT to declare results inconclusive thereby paving way for figures to be manipulated in favour of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The allegation was contained in a statement signed by the spokesman of the coalition, Imo Ugochinyere, on Sunday
The statement read, “We have obtained credible intelligence from insiders that the FCT INEC Staff and the REC have caved in to pressure from security agencies and APC chieftains working on the instructions of President Buhari to cancel some area councils’ presidential election results that were won overwhelmingly by the opposition candidate Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and declare the FCT election inconclusive to enable the President and the APC to fully prepare with security agencies to write results in those areas during a rerun.
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“President Buhari and his team, after the FCT results were tabulated, realised that not only did Atiku defeat him in the FCT but that he could not score 25 percent of the vote cast requirement hence the plan to cancel results from the remote areas of Bwari, Abaji etc to help declare FCT inconclusive.
“The world monitored the election in Abuja and knows that Atiku led Buhari with wide margin despite all the rampage visited on voters in the remote areas of the FCT.
