A grand theft of the people’s will.- Atiku Abubakar.

The presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, briefs the press on Wednesday at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja where he labelled last weekend’s presidential election “a grand theft of the people’s will.” The former Nigerian vice president said: “On election day, we saw the implementation of grand theft of the people’s will.

“In Akwa Ibom, for instance, the results showed a statistical impossibility of a 62 per cent drop in voter numbers from the 2015 elections, even where voter registration and PVC collection rates were much higher than in 2015. This is where voter suppression took place. “Our party made these observations and complaints before the elections that there were plans to implement voter suppression on PDP or opposition strongholds and voter increase in APC strongholds.”