The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has accepted defeat in ?Saturday’s re-run ?governorship election and blamed its poor performance on intra-party crisis.
“The CPC has no problem with the result and shall not contest it in any court,’’ the party Secretary in Kebbi, Alhaji Bashir Matawalle, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in reaction to the outcome of the election. ?
“The controversy over CPC’s withdrawal from Saturday’s governorship re-run election should not be blamed on INEC, ?the CPC did not put its house in order,’’ Matawalle said
The election was on by??Alhaji Saidu Dakingari of PDP with 875,492 against the ?17,918 votes ?scored by??Alhaji Abubakar Abubakar of CPC, who withdrew from the race 10 days before the election.
The party scribe decried the confusion in the party and pointed out that the withdrawal of??CPC from the race was not formally communicated to INEC, while the state chapter of the party was not aware of that decision.
?The ANPP candidate, Alhaji Suleiman Agungu, has however dismissed the re-run election as a “sham’’.
?“Going by the low turnout of voters, the general apathy to the exercise and the lopsided nature of the results, it is clear that the election did not meet expected standards’’ he told NAN. ?(NAN)