FCT Election: INEC, Labour sabotaged us, NNPP claims
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has rejected the outcome of the National Assembly elections in the Federal Capital Territory which produced Labour Party’s Ireti Kingibe as senator-elect.
The party alleged that the process that produced Ms Kingibe was marred by irregularities.
Mubarak Tijjani, the NNPP senatorial candidate in the FCT, said this at a news conference held in Abuja, on Thursday.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had announced Ms Kingibe winner of the FCT poll after she scored 202,175 votes. Incumbent Senator Philip Aduda of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) came second with 100,544 votes.
Angulu Dobi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) placed third with 78,905 votes.
Mr Tijjani claimed that the election was marred by irregularities ranging from over voting and the omission of NNPP’s logo from the ballot paper.
“We were sabotaged; all our efforts were sabotaged and undermined.
“I’m not trying to throw allegations but it is clear to everybody in FCT that LP and the INEC have played some certain role in sabotaging our efforts in the NNPP.
“Our logo was changed on the ballot paper, which was something that has caused NNPP a great loss in the 2023 general elections that we will never forget.
“That is why I’m challenging the result that brought Ireti Kingibe as the Senator-elect. This is not a true democracy. Democracy did not play a role in the 2023 general election,” he said.
Mr Tijjani also said that the agents’ tag for his party was not provided..
“A day before the election, they told us they forgot to print the entire tags for FCT.
“We were trying to improvise, the following morning we saw other party agents with their tags.
“By the time our agents who had trained to protect their votes, came to their polling units to do their assignment, they were only sent away by other party agents.
“We are highly disappointed in LP and we are not going to relent. We have to seek justice not just for ourselves, for our people, for our supporters but for our democracy,” he said.
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