The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday demanded the resignation of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, for alleged manipulation of last month’s presidential election result.
The commission had on March 1 declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as winner of the election after he polled 8,794, 726 votes to defeat his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rival, Atiku Abubakar, and 16 others in the exercise.
Atiku garnered 6,984,520 votes to finish ahead of the Labour Party candidate, Peter Obi, who got 6,101,533 votes.
