A spokesman for the Atiku Campaign Organisation in the just-concluded general election, Buba Galadima, has reiterated his claim that candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, won the February 23 presidential election.
Galadima, who spoke with Channels Television‘s Sunrise Daily, accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of colluding with the military and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the election.
He said that the militarisation of the election contributed to massive intimidation and harassment of voters during the polls.
When asked if he was looking for excuses to justify his candidate’s loss in the polls, Galadima said:
My candidate did not lose. Records available to us show that our candidate had won this election and that is why we have gone to court. This is why the APC has sponsored some highly-placed Nigerians and paid them handsomely to appeal to Atiku not to go to court. What is their business? Didn’t their candidate, in 2003, 2007 and 2011, go to court to challenge verdicts of elections? Did General Muhammadu Buhari, after the Supreme Court ruling that elections were fair and conducted satisfactorily, ever congratulate those that were declared to have won the elections? Why is it Atiku? Have you ever heard that a petitioner went to court and asked for permission to inspect election materials and the respondent himself now goes to court, because he’s not sure that what his agent did was right, to also ask for the same privilege to inspect electoral materials? They said they won and they want to inspect election materials. That has clearly showed you that the election was rigged and this election was not conducted according to the rules.
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