Results Were Rigged In Places LP Won Elections – Osuntokun

The Director-General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council (LP PCC), Akin Osuntokun, has claimed that results were rigged in places where the party won elections.

Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday night, Osuntokun said the party’s margins of victory were reduced and other results were manipulated.

The LP chieftain said the party will not accept the outcome of the presidential election because it won in Lagos and some other states.

He said: “Yes, they were because we won with wider margins. The credible speculation about the result in Lagos is that LP had about 900,000 or one million votes and then we were given 582,000 to beat APC with 572,000.

“So because of that I should accept the deceit, I should accept that fraud because somebody has declared us winners.

“What about the areas where they have worked against your interest? Even in the areas where we were declared as victors, we were still cheated, especially Lagos.

“The margin with which we defeated the other political parties in Lagos was extremely beyond what the INEC wrote down.”

Speaking further, Osuntokun said President Muhammadu Buhari failed to keep to his words of organizing free and fair elections before leaving office, adding that his promise did not translate to the conduct of the just-concluded presidential election.

According to the LP stalwart, the President should be blamed for the irregularities experienced in the just-concluded presidential election and the outcome of the exercise.

He said: “The buck stops on his (Buhari) table and secondly it was not the Nigerian public who said they were going to use the conduct of this election as a yardstick to measure his performance.

“He was the one who said so repeatedly. He said, ‘I want to be remembered as the person who conducted the best election’.

“So, how do you then reconcile this with what he said? How do you reconcile the fiasco that we have on the ground?”