PDP bribed voters to win Adamawa governorship election – CPC

The Congress for Progressive Change has alleged massive usage of money by the winner, the Peoples Democratic Party, to influence voters in Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Adamawa State.
The Governor-elect, Alhaji Murtala Nyako, was the flag bearer of the PDP.

In a statement yesterday by its National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin, the CPC said that the PDP “preying on the endemic poverty that its successive 12 years of governance of the state had foisted on the people, shamefully embarked on monetary inducement of the voters and law enforcement agents.”
Fashakin added: “In most parts of Gada Local Government, INEC refused to return the CPC’s agents’ forms, thereby allowing the PDP to substitute with its agents to corrupt the process.
“Martin Babale, a former Federal Legislator and PDP chieftain in Ganye LG, was caught with six ballot boxes for thumb printing in his house. In Fufore LG, the administrator used paid urchins to chase away observers and Party agents to perpetrate the nefarious acts of electoral manipulation.
“It is evident that the declared results did not reflect the true electoral wishes of the people. The oddity of this electoral outcome is seen in the mismanagement by the PDP administration in the last four years, especially in the naked abuse of executive powers: the pauperized citizenry has been adjudged as electing the same oppressive regime!
“As a Party, we reject the declared results of the Adamawa governorship election as not reflective of the electoral wishes of the people, though we believe it is otiose pursuing any judicial redress.”