30th March, 2015
Kazeem Ugbodaga
The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress, APC, has lamented the delay in releasing the presidential election results in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The party asked INEC to as a matter of urgency made the result of the election public as delay in announcing the result is dangerous.
Publicity Secretary, APC, Lagos State, Joe Igbokwe in a statement said “all things considered, and given our calculations, permutations, analysis and projections, General Buhari of APC has made history by winning the 2015 Presidential elections.
“What is left now is for INEC and Professor Jega to make the result available to Nigerians as a matter of urgency to stop the tension, anxieties, fears and uncertainties in the land. In Lagos in particular, we have concluded the elections in the remaining 110 units in 5 LGAs and we know the results already but we are waiting for INEC Electoral officers to make the results public, because it is their duty to do so,” he said.
Igbokwe stated that results were supposed to be released after 24 hours according to the Electoral Laws but that Lagosians had waited for more than 48 hours as delay is dangerous.
“We have it on good authority that PDP is plotting to manipulate the process in order to give itself undeserved and unmerited advantage by fiddling with the already known figures. This is potentially dangerous and if it does happen President Jonathan and his handlers may set the country on the path of dishonour.
“Faced with an embarrassing, humiliating and crushing defeat, PDP leaders have been running helter-skelter, holding secret meeting with security agencies to tinker with the results,” he added.
He warned that Nigerians would stop at nothing to defend their votes even with all the energies at their disposal as Nigerians had worked so hard to affect change in the way “we run this country but it looks as if the agents of darkness are still at work to scuttle a hard earned victory won with pains, tears and blood. Nigerians will soon know how many people PDP killed in order to suppress this imminent change.”
Igbokwe charged Nigerians not to overlook what is going on in South South and South East where security agencies had been unleashed on the people with reckless abandon, and “the reports we are getting say it is like a war situation.”
“Once again, we repeat that Nigerians have these results in their hands all over the world and all we are waiting for is for the INEC and Professor Jega to conclude leadership by announcing the Presidential elections results as soon as possible,” he said.