Ramatu Attah, a senatorial aspirant for Kogi Central on the platform of APC, has rejected the outcome of last week’s senatorial primary election in the zone.

Mrs Attah insisted that “there were no APC primaries in the zone, and no candidate emerged”.

The spokesperson for Mrs Attah’s campaign organisation, Yusuf Abdulkadir, disclosed this at a news conference in Lokoja on Tuesday.

“I want posterity and history to note that there was no room for fair play and equity. We were not given equal opportunities because the election was just a predetermined selection and not an election.

“As aspirants, we were neither at any time allowed access to the delegates’ lists nor obliged with copies,” she said.

“There was no accreditation of delegates, and when we requested for reason, we were informed that the delegates had been accredited by their respective Local Government chairmen.

“We were still in shock that Alh. Yahaya Karaku was the Returning Officer, contrary to APC Guidelines; this is a gross aberration of the rules,” she said.

She noted that all the manipulations during the purported primaries were done to favour the preferred candidate, Abubakar Ohere, a former Kogi commissioner for works.

Mrs Attah stressed that despite their persistent insistence that due process should be followed and guidelines complied with, they were ignored, and the voting went ahead.

She added that at this point, she and other aspirants were left with no option but to stage a walkout and leave the venue in protest.

“Only for us to read on the social media some fictitious and laughable results with imaginary votes allotted to us,” Mrs Attah said.

Mr Ohere was announced the winner of the Kogi Central Senatorial APC primary election after scoring 260 votes.

(NAN)