THE Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, alongside other leaders of the party, are currently protesting at the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja.
Others at the protest include the national chairman of the party, Iyorchia Ayu, Sokoto State governor Aminu Tambuwal and former national chairman, Uche Secondus
The protest is part of the party’s way of showing its grievances with the just-concluded Presidential Election.
The PDP is insisting that the election was not free and fair and that the results announced by INEC are not credible.
Atiku and the party leaders and their supporters started the protest from the Legacy House in Maitama.
Atiku had earlier on Thursday blamed INEC over the conduct of the elections, saying the umpire’s failure to upload results on IReV was a “rape of democracy”.
INEC, on Wednesday, March 1, declared the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, winner of the Presidential Election.
The Chairman of INEC Mahmood Yakubu announced that Tinubu won with 8,794,726 votes while Atiku Abubakar finished second with 6,984,520 votes.
Labour Party (LP) candidate Peter Obi followed closely with 6,101,533 votes, while Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) came 4th with 1,496,687 votes, according to the result released by INEC.
The protest is still ongoing as of the time of filing this report.
A reporter with the ICIR
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