The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has refuted the rigging allegation of one of its presidential candidates, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen.
Speaking during an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, stated that they do not have any evidence to support or deny the allegation.
Recall that Hayatu-Deen had earlier announced that he would not attend the party’s presidential primary election results announcement, citing concerns over alleged widespread irregularities in the exercise.
In an X statement on Tuesday, he said, “I will not be attending the announcement of the ADC Presidential Election Results today. I am concerned by reports from across the country of widespread vote rigging, some of which I myself observed, and will therefore be taking advice on my next steps.”
Responding to the allegations, the party’s spokesman said, “We don’t have any evidence to be able to support his position or to deny his position because we’ve not collated the results.
“We’ve not noticed any pattern in the result, and we’ve not seen enough to be able to establish a pattern.
“Eleven states’ results have been received so far. We are still awaiting other results. Any moment from now we are going to start the collation.”
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Meanwhile this also comes as Former Minister of Transportation, and presidential contender Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, also completely rejected the results of presidential primaries, alleging widespread voter disenfranchisement and electoral malpractice.
Speaking in a statement shared via his official X handle on Tuesday, Rotimi Amaechi described the outcome of the exercise as “concocted results.”
He further said he had earlier made it clear that he would only accept the outcome of the primaries if the process was free, fair and transparent.
He said, “I will not accept results from a process that does not reflect the values that the ADC had pledged to uphold.”
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