PDP’s claim of 6m under-age voters vindicates CPC, says Buhari

Nuruddeen M. Abdallah

Recent claims by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the effect that over six million under-age voters voted for the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) during the April 16 presidential election has vindicated the CPC’s claim that the election was not free, fair and credible as the PDP wants the world to believe, CPC’s presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday.

Buhari, who spoke through his spokesperson, Yinka Odumakin said PDP “has now been forced to eat its words (and those of its many accomplices) that the elections were free and fair with a self-shot at the foot that “six million under-age voters” voted for the CPC.”

This development, according to Buhari, “has further strengthened our position that the elections were not credible.” “We understand the panicky moves of the Jonathan Presidency though. It stole the presidency in a hurry and is now scared stiff that its tracks are not covered at all,” he said.

He explained that “if indeed the Independent National Electoral Commission (not CPC) allowed six million unqualified voters in one election, the electoral body has serious questions to answer and all elections conducted based on such a fraudulent N87b voters register should be nullified.”

The CPC presidential candidate said that “Nigerians have not forgotten so soon how the ‘credible’ Professor Attahiru Jega told the country he was going to clean up the voters register of multiple-registrations and only to return with extra 11million voters after the ‘clean-up’.”

A lie repeated by 1000 people is still a lie, for the attention of all the praise singers of polls fraud as “free and fair” and “a wide margin that cannot be closed at the tribunal,” Buhari said.