The Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday
refused to sign the final result sheet for the March 28 presidential
election, which it lost to Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.) of the All
Progressives Congress.
This was despite that the PDP presidential candidate, President
Goodluck Jonathan, had conceded defeat earlier before the Chairman of
the Independent National Electoral Commission and Chief Returning
Officer of the election, Prof. Attahiru Jega, returned Buhari as the
President-elect at about 3.44am on Wednesday.
One of the PDP agents, Godsday Orubebe, who had earlier caused a row when the collation exercise continued on Tuesday, had left the National Collation Centre in Abuja before the announcement of the final result by Jega.
The second agent, Bello Fadile, was present when party agents were being called upon to sign the result sheet.
At about 3.36am
when Fadile approached the podium, where Jega was seated, instead of
signing the result sheet as other agents invited before him had done, he
only spoke few words in hushed tones to the INEC boss, shook hands with
him (Jega) and returned to his seat.
Fadile however waited till the end of the event at about 3.53am to receive a copy of the result
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