APC alleges that PDP plans to get a court injunction preventing Inec from announcing results

NIGERIA'S ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused the main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of planning to secure an injunction to prevent the Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) from announcing results.

On Saturday, Nigeria went to the polls to elect a president and members of the National Assembly and since then, Inec has been declaring winners of the contests for the Senate and House of Representatives. This morning, results of the presidential election will be announced as the returning officers from each of the 36 states will begin declaring the figures at Inec's collation centre in Abuja.

However, the APC has alleged that the PDP has perfected plans to scuttle Nigeria's democracy and throw the country into a constitutional crises by surreptitiously obtaining an ex-parte court order stopping the announcement of the presidential election results. APC presidential campaign council spokesman Festus Keyamo, said that the PDP has met with a group of senior lawyers who were instructed to prepare and file the processes in court today.

Mr Keyamo added: "Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was clear in his brief to the lawyers that he must be declared the president-elect of Nigeria by hook or crook, whether he wins or loses, or else he would drag the country down with him. Nigerians would recall that the June 12, 1993 debacle that brought Nigeria to its knees and caused our country international isolation was precipitated by a court injunction stopping the announcement of presidential election results.

"We are also informed that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar confided in those around him that his desperation is borne out of the fact that he has made profound commitments to his local and international sponsors regarding the sale of our national assets like NNPC and others to them that he cannot just afford to let them down at this time, having assured them that there was no way he would not win the presidential election. However, results trickling in from around the country have dampened his optimism."

"We therefore wish to advice anyone who wishes to aid and encourage Alhaji Atiku Abubakar along this infamous part to remember the June 12 debacle. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar may also wish to learn a lesson or two from President Muhammadu Buhari who resorted to the court of law in 2003 when Atiku, along with President Olusegun Obasanjo, defeated him in the presidential race in that year in controversial circumstances.

"President Buhari, as a true statesman and democrat, never resorted to underhand tactics to declare himself president. We hope a word is enough for the wise."