Atiku, Ayu, Others protest presidential election in Abuja

By our Reporter

The leadership and supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday, through a protest stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja demanding the cancellation of the 25 February presidential election.

Leading the Protest is Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,Presidential Candidate, National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, and the Director General of his campaign and Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, the party also submitted a petition to the commission.

They said the election was not credible.

INEC had on Wednesday declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, winner of the election.

The commission’s Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, who announced the results, said Mr Tinubu polled the majority votes of 8,794,726, while Atiku secured 6,984,520 votes, Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) came third with 6,101,533 votes and Rabi’u Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) got 1,496,687 votes.

Altogether, 18 candidates contested the presidential election.

The PDP and Labour Party (LP) had rejected the results of the election during the collation of results and before Mr Tinubu was announced as the winner.

Both parties have also approached the court to challenge the electoral process and Mr Tinubu’s victory.

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