The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the just concluded Niger East Senatorial bye-election, Barrister David Umaru has described the antics of the Peoples Democratic Party leadership to rig him out of elective contests as fool-hardy insisting that such thought in the mind of the PDP administration in the state were mere illusions.
Umaru stated this on Tuesday during a press conference in Minna while speaking for the first time on the result of the Niger East Senatorial bye-election won by the PDP candidate, Dr. Shem Nuhu Zagbayi.
He said his political torchlight was shining brighter each time PDP stole the peoples mandate away from him adding that he was ready to do the will of the people in 2015.
He expressed total rejection of the results alleging massive rigging, stuffing of ballot papers, snatching of ballot boxes, monetary inducement of voters and intimidation by security agencies working for government.
He said that his party was studying the result and would soon come out with a position, adding that “PDP is afraid of the will of the people that gave us their mandate but they have used their antics to subvert the will of the people.
“However, the people of the zone and the state in general have spoken. PDP cannot stop the force of wind of change that is blowing across the state, we have done well and we have won the election even if PDP stole it away from us”.
The APC candidate paid tribute to the electorate who came out to vote for him in the rains despite intimidation and harassment by government officials deployed to polling units by the administration.
He lambasted the state government for deploying commissioners and other political appointees to polling units in total disregard to electoral laws saying that “in Niger state and the entire country, those who have power use it to entrench themselves in power while the vote of the people does not really count. But this will not last for long as we shall rescue democracy from the hands of callous leaders”.
Umaru expressed appreciation to the people and his growing supporters and encouraged them to continue to be firm in the determination to entrench true democracy in the state.
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