The All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate in Taraba State, Senator Aisha Alhassan, has rejected the results of the just concluded elections as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday.
While addressing a press conference in Jalingo shortly after the announcement of the results, Aisha Alhassan said the entire election process was a “daylight robbery’’ and that her party would challenge the results in the elections petitions tribunal.
According to her, “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 News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that she contended that 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 the election in Taraba.
The INEC Returning Officer for Taraba Prof. Kyari Mohammed, who declared the results yesterday in Jalingo, said Dickson Ishaku emerged winner by scoring 369,318 votes.
Alhassan was said to have come second with 275,984 votes, while Chief David Kente of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), got 29, 966 votes.
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.
