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March 24, 2019
The national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party, PDPhas expressed its support for the demands on the Independent National ElectoralCommission, INEC to cancel Saturday’s supplementary governorship electionin Kano State.
The party, in a statement by its National Publicity SecretaryKola Ologbondiyan, said the election should be cancelled because of  thedisruption and bloodletting that characterised it.
Ologbondiyan alleged that all material facts on thesupplementary election in Kano state showed how thugs violently took overpolling units, attacked and chased away voters and engaged in massivethumb-printing and ballot stuffing.
“INEC is already aware that the Police arrested aCommissioner and some thugs in Yelwa in Dala Local Government Area of thestate.
“Also INEC is already aware of how  thugs attackedvoters in polling units in Gama area of Kano state during which four PDPmembers were feared killed and many more injured before they carted away ballotboxes for stuffing.
“The PDP cautions INEC to note that in this circumstance,any results they come out with from this convoluted electoral process will be asham and will surely be rejected by the people of Kano state,” he said.
Ologbondiyan said it was completely condemnable that theopposition and its candidate would resort to violence as a means of attemptingto hold on to power.
He said that the PDP  grew Nigeria’s democracy for 16years without watering the quest for power with the blood of the innocent aswitnessed  in the 2019 general elections.
“The PDP therefore charges INEC to save the nation fromcrisis by cancelling the Kano Supplementary election, as failure to do so isnot in the best interest of our dear nation,” he added. (NAN)