The weeping Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has declared that it will contest the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) victory in Saturday’s Ondo State gubernatorial election.
Recall the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, announced on Sunday that the APC’s Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa had won the poll.
In all, Aiyedatiwa received 366781 votes, defeating Ajayi Agboola, who received 117845 votes from the Peoples Democratic Party, or PDP.
However, the PDP claimed in a statement released on Tuesday by Ayo Fadaka, special adviser to Agboola, the party’s candidate for governor, that the party has “uncovered lots of actions undertaken to compromise the electoral desires of the people”.
The party claimed that the election’s results demonstrated that democracy cannot “thrive in an environment where unabated criminality is perpetrated in the prosecution of an election by the agency, INEC, saddled with the responsibility to protect our franchise and deliver its mandate at the end of every election.”
The statement went on to say that the only way the APC could reverse the purported stolen mandate was to take legal action against the outcomes of the triumph.
“We are hopeful that man and God who is the ultimate will give us justice”, the statement added.