The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kano State has called for the immediate cancellation of the rerun election currently going on in the state following the wide spread of violence that characterized the process.
Speaking during a press conference, Alhaji Rabiu Suleiman Bichi, the acting State Chairman of the PDP, described the exercise as a “Charade,” saying “what we have in Kano is nothing but sham”.
The PDP state chairman accused the ruling party in the state of mobilizing thugs to overrun all the 208 polling units where the supplementary election is taking place in the state.
“These thugs are imported from Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, Plateau and other neighboring states.
“These thugs are armed to teeth and posing as electorates of those localities’ polling units” he said.
He alleged that the thugs voted freely with PVCs that do not belong to them with some of the thugs posing as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) staff.
Mr Bichi said that their party agents were denied access to the polling units and most of them were beaten and driven away.
“As I address you now, we have reports that some of our agents have been killed, vehicles burnt, property destroyed in Doguwa, Nasarawa, Minjibir, Dala and Tudun Wada Local government areas.
“These with other infractions made us to completely lose faith in the whole exercise and therefore, call on INEC to cancel this elections,” Alhaji Bichi concluded.
Daily Trust
