APC Governorship Candidate in Taraba state Rejects Results
The candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Taraba State governorship elections, Senator Aisha Alhassan, has rejected the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, on Sunday.
Sen. Alhassan announced the rejection of the results at a press conference in Jalingo, describing the entire elections process as a “daylight robbery”. She also said her party would proceed to the elections petitions tribunal to challenge the results.
She said: “The combined governorship elections in Taraba were characterised by violence, massive rigging, ballot snatching and abuse of the card readers in substantial parts of the state by the PDP and their allies.
“The results ascribed to Wukari, Donga, Takum, Sardauna, Zing, Yorro, Kurmi and some parts of Ussa, Karim-Lamido, Bali, Ardo-Kola and Lau local government areas were not acceptable as they did not reflect the true results of yesterday’s election in Taraba.”
She alleged that all the complaints on the irregularities and abuse of the election guidelines were promptly reported to INEC, but that no action was taken.