Alleged Electoral Fraud: PDP Demands Immediate Resignation, Arrest Of INEC Boss 

• PDP has called for the immediate resignation and arrest of the INEC Chairman.

• Mister Debo alleged that the 2023 presidential election results were mutilated.

• According to him, the INEC intentionally failed to transmit the results from polling units as stipulated by the Electoral Act.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for the immediate resignation, arrest and investigation of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu over alleged manipulation of the February 25 presidential election result.

During a press conference held on Friday in Abuja, Mister Debo Ologunagba, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, made allegations that the election results had been tampered with.

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According to him, the commission intentionally failed to transmit the results from polling units as stipulated by the Electoral Act.

He maintained that the INEC Chairman’s exit will be the first step to rebuilding confidence in the electoral body.

Ologunagba also asked the Inspector General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (INEC) to commence an investigation of the INEC Chairman.

In a keen contest, PDP presidential candidate and former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar lost to Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

While Atiku polled 6,984,520 votes to come second in the race, Tinubu came out top in 12 of Nigeria’s 36 states and secured significant numbers in several other states to claim the highest number of votes — 8,794,726.

Mr Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who, in less than a year, galvanised young voters in a manner some have described as unprecedented finished the race with 6,101,533.

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Both Atiku and Obi have rejected the outcome of the election, vowing to challenge the result in court.

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