President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday said he was not surprised by the decision of Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the opposition PDP to challenge his victory at the courts after the results of the 2019 presidential election were announced.
The president stated this after casting his vote in his home state Katsina in the governorship and state assembly elections at the Kofar Baru 003 polling unit, Daura.
Pressed by reporters to react to the decision by the PDP to challenge the outcome of the presidential election, Buhari replied: “I expected that to happen.”
Atiku had claimed, “One obvious red flag is the statistical impossibility of states ravaged by the war on terror generating much higher voter turnouts than peaceful states. The suppressed votes in my strongholds are so apparent and amateurish, that I am ashamed as a Nigerian that such could be allowed to happen. How can total votes in Akwa Ibom, for instance, be 50% less than what they were in 2015?
“Another glaring anomaly is the disruption of voting in strongholds of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos, Akwa-Ibom, Rivers and diverse other states, with the authorities doing little or nothing and in some cases facilitating these unfortunate situations…
On the tension and violence across the country over Saturday’s elections, the President said he will the law enforcement agencies to deal with the situation.
He said, “I will leave it to the law enforcement agencies especially the police because they have been meeting virtually on a 48-hour basis to make sure that they have identified the flashpoints, as you mentioned, wherever they are and make arrangements to counter it.”
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