The Coalition of United Political Parties has raised the alarm
over an alleged plan to cancel the presidential election in some
area councils of the Federal Capital Territory.
It said the strategy was to declare results inconclusive to pave
the way for alteration of figures in favour of President Muhammadu
Buhari of the All Progressives Congress.
The coalition’s spokesman, Imo Ugochinyere, made the allegation
in a statement made available to journalists in Abuja on Sunday
He said, “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.
“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.
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