APC, Jega Rubbish PDP’s Claim Of Victory In 23 States …Expect Results Today – INEC

Rivers APC members protesting over irregularities during the Presidential and National Assembly election in Port Harcourt, yesterday

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega, and the All Progressives Congress (APC), have denounced claims by the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP)  that it was leading in 23 states of the country, as results of the Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections trickled in, yesterday.
Jega said however that INEC may release the  authentic results of the polls by today.
The Spokesman of the Jonathan Campaign Organization, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, who made the claim in a press statement yesterday, also claimed that Jonathan has scored 64 per cent of the votes cast, nationwide.
But shortly after Fani-Kayode made his claim, the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, responded to the claim while answering questions from journalists during a press conference in Abuja, yesterday.
Jega said: ‘’I don’t know the sources of such information (that the PDP is leading in 23 states). The results have not been collated in 23 states. Fairly very few states have actually collated. In fact, only two states have been collated…. There is the need to be careful about the information being put there by people who are clearly partisan.’’
Also speaking in Lagos, the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said that information reaching the party showed that APC was leading in most states, where results have been announced.
He noted that in the North East, North West, North Central, and all states in the South West, except, Ekiti, APC was leading the votes already announced by the various state RECs, arguing that the party does not know where Fani-Kayode got his 23 states from.