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Says 80% of party members not allowed to vote
Presidential aspirant on the platform of African Democratic Congress (ADC), Rotimi Amaechi has rejected the results of Monday’s presidential primary of the party held across the country.
The former Minister of Transportation made his stance known in a statement he personally signed and issued on Tuesday.
Amaechi alleged widespread voter disenfranchisement and electoral malpractice.
He described the results being announced across the country as “concocted” and “unacceptable”.
The statement reads, “I had initially stated that I will only accept the outcome of the Primaries if the process was free, fair, and transparent, and I stand by my word.
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“I will not accept results from a process that does not reflect the values that the ADC had pledged to uphold, to rescue Nigerians from the impunity and gross mismanagement that our country is currently facing in the hands of the ruling party.”
He said he would not accept the results from an election where “eighty percent of members of the party were not allowed to vote”.
“Then what makes us different from the others?
“The whole idea of the ADC was to give the Nigerian people a platform, to amplify the voices of the downtrodden, and make Nigeria a better place for everyone irrespective of backgrounds, ethnicity, or religion.
“A party that criticizes the ruling APC and INEC for vote buying, rigging and writing of results, cannot be engaged in vote buying, writing of results, and other electoral malpractices that leads to the disenfranchisement of voters who are party members. This is not acceptable!” Amaechi added.
