2023 KOGI, IMO & BAYELSA GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION UPDATES
FACT CHECK: Are PDP, APC, And LP Presidential Election Results The Same In Gombe, Bauchi?
On Tuesday afternoon, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the Labour Party (LP), and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) held a joint press conference to reject the collation process of the presidential election results.
The political parties called on the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, to step down and asked President Muhammadu to appoint a replacement.
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At the briefing, the National Chairman of the PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, claimed that the presidential results in Gombe and Bauchi States are the same.
He said the PDP scored 319,123 votes, while the APC and LP polled 146,977 and 26,160 votes respectively in Gombe and Bauchi States.
PDP National Chairman, Dr. Iyorchia Ayu
Ayu, therefore, concluded that the INEC has compromised the process by allocating results.
However, checks by Eko Hot Blog revealed that the PDP chairman’s claims were false.
It appears Ayu relied on the misleading tabulation of a civil society organisation, Civichive.
Civichive has been a source of the election results for some Nigerians but checks by Eko Hot Blog revealed that the organisation uploaded the same results for PDP, APC, and LP in Gombe and Bauchi States, generating confusion.
Correct presidential results of Gombe State
Wrong presidential results of Bauchi State
The official INEC results sighted by our reporter show that the presidential election results in Gombe and Bauchi States are significantly different.
Civichive appears to correct the wrong result in Bauchi State to the correct numbers
In Gombe, the electoral umpire announced that the PDP received 319,123 votes, the APC polled 146,977, and the LP got 26,160.
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However, INEC announced that the PDP won 426,607 votes in Bauchi State. The commission also confirmed that the APC and LP received 316,694 and 27,373 votes respectively in the state.
CLAIM: PDP, APC, LP scored the same number of votes in Gombe and Bauchi States
VERDICT: False. The parties scored different number of votes in both states.
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