Atiku, governors absent at PDP NEC meeting in Abuja

- Peoples Democratic Party has held its 85th emergency NEC meeting in Abuja

- Atiku Abubakar, PDP presidential candidate and all the governors-elected were absent at the meeting

- The party national chairman, Uche Secondus, said Atiku and the governors were absent because they were preparing for Saturday’s rerun polls

PDP national chairman, Uche Secondus, has disclosed why Atiku Abubakar and all the governors-elected on the platform of the party were absent at its 85th emergency National Executive Committee meeting held in Abuja.

Daily Trust reports that Secondus on Wednesday, March 20, said Atiku and the governors were absent because they were preparing for the rerun elections that are going to be held on Saturday, March 23.

According to him, “Obviously, we are in election season. So, you can’t blame anybody. We are in election season. So, we don’t have anybody to blame at all.”

Among the absentees were Governors Darius Ishaku of Taraba state and Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo of Gombe state, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto state

Others include Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state and his Kwara state counterpart, Ahmed Abdulfattah.

Governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers state; Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta; Ben Ayade of Cross River; Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom; Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa state were also absent at the meeting.

While others are Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi state; Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu state; and Chigozie Ikoeazu of Abia State.

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Speaking after the meeting, PDP national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said the NEC discussed issues relating to this Saturday’s rerun elections and how to “reclaim” the party’s presidential mandate.

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that Atiku Abubakar released what he claimed to be the authentic presidential election result gotten from the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) server.

In his petition, Atiku claimed he won the presidential election to defeat President Muhammadu Buhari who was declared winner by the electoral body. Atiku said he scored 18,356,732 votes to defeat Buhari whom he claimed scored 16,741,430 votes.

Part of the petition read: “The 1st Respondent wrongly and unlawfully credited the 2nd Respondent with votes which were not valid or lawful votes at various stages of the election, namely, at the polling units, the ward collating centres, local government collating centres and the State collating centres, with the result that the 2nd Respondent was wrongly returned when the said 2nd Respondent did not score majority of lawful votes.

“The Petitioners shall also call evidence of statisticians forensic examiners and finger-print experts at the hearing of the Petition to establish that the scores credited the 2nd Respondent were not the product of actual votes validly cast at the polling units.''

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