Kwara PDP calls for cancellation of presidential, NASS election results

The PDP in Kwara State has rejected and called for the cancellation of the results of last weekend’s presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.

State chairman of the party, Engr Kola Shittu, made the call yesterday at a press conference in Ilorin, the state capital.

He said the party was ready to employ every legal means to redress what he termed manifest irregularities which he alleged characterised the elections across the state’s three senatorial districts.

Shittu who was flanked by other executive members of the party, said the elections were marred by electoral malpractices, malfunctioning of 90 per cent of card readers, multiple voting as well as over-voting.

“We call on INEC to cancel the election because its outcome does not reflect the wishes of the people,” he said, adding, “We also received report of how APC agents made use of unclaimed PVCs to vote at some polling units across the state particularly within Kwara Central. Also, many of the local observers accredited by INEC to monitor the election were APC members.

“Additionally, prior to the day of the election, the Federal Government backed APC made some retrogressive and undemocratic moves, using state apparatus to intimidate and arrest some of our members and supporters in some parts of the state.”