Don’t allow interference with Adamawa election, PDP urges Buhari

The Peoples Democratic Party in Adamawa State has pleaded with President Muhammadu Buhari to thwart any attempt to drag him into a plot to upturn the outcome of the governorship election which was declared inconclusive.

Addressing journalists in Yola on Wednesday, the state chairman of the PDP, Tahir Shehu, said the party had already uncovered a plot to make the state High Court stop the Independent National Electoral Commission from conducting the supplementary election scheduled for March 23.

He said: “One of the alleged moves is to lobby the Presidency to cause the state High Court to slam the INEC with an order of injunction restraining the electoral body from conducting the supplementary election and cancel the entire elections”, he said.

“They intend to use a governorship candidate who allegedly claimed that the logo of his party was omitted on the ballot in the last governorship election to file a case before the State High Court “, he adde

He alleged that the same leadership of the state government that refused to work hard for reelection of President Buhari during the Presidential election was now busy lobbying the Presidency to save them from defeat.

“We urge the President to play the role of a father that he is as all of us here in Adamawa are also his own. In the face of this is a crushing debt of about N150 billion . Yet over N400 billion was collected as state and local government statutory allocations for the past three years from the Federation Account by the outgoing state government”.