Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State has revealed why he thought the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was able to defeat his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) at his polling unit in just concluded Local Government elections in the state.
According to him, the defeat of the APC showed that his party did not manipulate the e-voting machines.
The governor said that the election results showed that people were making electoral choices based on performance of their elected officials.
El-Rufai said: “Those that reported that the machines were programmed were ashamed when it was reported that APC lost in my polling unit. People were laughing that I lost my polling unit, but it is democracy that won.
“I’m not on the ballot, so it is not a referendum on me, it is a referendum on the councillor and the performance of the chairman of the local council.
“The loss of my polling unit shows that we did not programme these machines; we did not influence our independent electoral commission, and the whole thing has worked very well.”
It was earlier reported the results announced by the State Independent Electoral Commission for Unit 01 Ungwar Sarki, Kaduna North Local Government, showed the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) getting 86 out of 159 votes for chairman.
El-Rufai’s All Progressive Congress secured 62 votes, while APP had 1, ZLP 5, PRP 4, and 3 abstentions.
The PDP also got 100 votes for the councillorship seat out of 162 cast while APC scored 53, ZLP 2, PRP 2, NNPP 1 and BP 4.
The results were announced by the Presiding Officer, Muhammad Sani.
