The Presidential Campaign Council of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) says the spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, Sen. Dino Melaye, has been calling for the upload of Saturday’s presidential election result to give the opposition party a false victory.
The APC campaign council stated that Melaye has been demanding the upload of the result of the 2023 presidential election to hack the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The Special Adviser, Media and Communication, APC Presidential Campaign Council, Dele Alake, said this at a press conference in Abuja on Monday.
Melaye, who represented Kogi West Senatorial District in the 8th Senate, caused a stir at the National Collation Centre in Abuja on Monday as he rejected the presidential election result declared for Ekiti State over alleging over-voting.
The former senator also called on the electoral umpire to upload the election result announced at the collation centre on INEC’s Results Viewing Portal (IReV).
Reacting to the development, Alake said: “We also wonder why agents of the party at the Abuja collation centre are pushing insistently for the uploading of the results on INEC portal when section 60 of the Electoral Act is clear about who has the power to do so at the polling unit.
“The state collation officer has no such power. The INEC chairman, who collates what has been collated from the states also has no such power.
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“Is the PDP calling for the upload to enable it hack the system to give it a false victory?
“Unlike what the PDP spokesmen have done, we will not announce ourselves as winners despite having the figures which affirm our anticipated victory.
“We will abide by the laws by allowing the electoral umpire to do its job.
“A cursory look at the figures from across the states show that our candidate is well placed for victory. The results have shown that the Labour Party, as we kept saying, is no threat to our victory.
“The PDP, on the other hand, has also failed in its own permutation making its dream of victory go up in smoke. The PDP’s projection of a landslide win in the North has collapsed.”
He further accused some PDP spokespersons of inciting violence over the presidential and National Assembly elections held in the country on Saturday, calling on security agencies to restrain them from their alleged actions.
“We are particularly concerned and call on the State Security Services and the Nigeria Police Force to immediately restrain persons such as Dino Melaye, Dele Momodu and a certain Pastor Paul Enenche of Dunamis Church from their clear call to violence.
“Melaye’s tweet threatening violence, Momodu going on the TV to announce a purported winner and Enenche’s hate speech from the pulpit violate every law of the land. They should not go scot-free.
“When failure stared them in the face, rather than accept the outcome with dignity like good democrats would, some sore losers began shopping for ways to cut corners or scuttle the process. We have seen many doctored results giving false victory to the Labour Party in places where it performed abysmally poor.
“The idea was to give its followers hope and prepare them for a planned street insurrection. The PDP has employed almost similar tactics despite secretly admitting defeat. They went about with mouthwatering offers looking for willing partners that would help them subvert the will of the people.
“Perhaps having failed to procure officials to help it doctor results, the PDP earlier today rented willing airwaves to make very dangerous statements on the election,” Alake added.
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