Taraba poll result daylight robbery, says Senator Aisha Alhassan

Taraba poll result daylight robbery, says Senator Aisha Alhassan

Sunday, April 26, 2015 4:37 pm


Senator Jummai Aisha Alhassan, the female governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress In Taraba state has rejected the results of the poll as announced by INEC.

Moments after INEC gave the trophy of the governorship seat to Darius Ishaku of the PDP, Alhassan met the press and described the entire elections process as a “daylight robbery”. She said her party would challenge the results in the elections petitions tribunal.

“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,” she said. It was the second time in less than two weeks that she would draw national attention to the inequities of the election.

She said today that 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 the election in Taraba.

Alhassan said all the complaints on the irregularities and abuse of the election guidelines were promptly reported to INEC, but that no action was taken.

The INEC Returning Officer for Taraba Prof. Kyari Mohammed, who declared the results on Sunday in Jalingo, said Ishaku scored 369,318 votes to emerge victorious.

He said Sen. Aisha Alhassan came second with 275,984 votes, while Chief David Kente of the Social Democratic Party, polled 29, 966 votes.


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