The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said it would not accept the results of the presidential elections being announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
National Chairman of the party, Uche Secondus, speaking at a press conference in Abuja, Monday evening, said the results being announced at the national collation centre were incorrect.
According to him, the party has discovered some irregularities in results announced from Nasarawa state and the federal capital territory, FCT.
Secondus claimed that the All Progressives Congress-led government colluded with INEC and security agencies to manipulate results from polling units across the country.
He said; “Our collation centres have the original results from all the polling units in the country. That is from where we are going to reclaim our results.
“The results are incorrect and unacceptable to our party. Officials of the APC working with INEC have decided to alter results to affect our people. This must now be resisted by every well-meaning Nigerian.
“INEC must live up to its responsibility. They are under pressure. We have the facts and when the time comes, we begin to release them.”
The PDP Chairman said his party would bring Nigerians up to date “as time goes on” about their decisions in other states yet to be announced.
He alleged that the All Progressives Congress, APC, colluded with INEC through “aggressive steps mostly through inducements, manipulations and using state power including the security agencies to silence the voices of our long-suffering people.”
He pointed to the arrest of PDP officials including Buba Galadima, a national leader of the party, as part of APC’s plans to muscle the party.
“The ruling party and Buhari despatched high ranking officials to influence outcomes of the exercise to meet with INEC resident electoral commissions.
“They tampered with results from some polling units across the country. The minister of interior was deployed to north-west while the secretary to the government of the federation was sent to south-east and south-south,” he claimed.
He insisted that PDP was “on course to victory at the presidency”, adding: “We appeal to INEC chairman to remain impartial because the world is watching and history will indeed pass judgement.”
