The Kogi State Chapter of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has rejected results of the concluded senatorial election in Kogi Central.
The party said results of the elections as claimed to have been scored by Natasha Akpoti into the Central Senatorial District is unacceptable to it.
According to the SDP Chairman, Alh. Mouktar Atimah, the party does not believe in the election results, describing it as an election marred by a lot of irregularities. He insisted that the result is not unacceptable to the party.
According to the Chairman; “the Kogi state governor turned himself to an electoral officer, moving round and collecting form EC8A from one polling unit to another and filling it himself.
“The action of the governor is laughable as the accreditation by the card readers did not tally with the vote cast, so how can such results hold.
“This is not an election because he cannot use his position, those of his aides and security agencies to intimidate the people.
“We are worried by the hurried nature by which the results were cooked up. How can you imaging Natasha scoring zero in polling units where even the PDP would have more votes than we do.”
The SDP Chairman called on the members of SDP and the supporters of Natasha Akpoti to remain calm, as the purported results that was allocated to SDP cannot stand.
While noting that the SDP Senatorial candidate is the winner of the last Saturday’s election, said her popularity and acceptance was widely acknowledged, wondered how an unacceptable figures would be allocated to the SDP candidate.
