Senate: ‘Saraki hasn’t conceded defeat’

The Director-General of Kwara State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Campaign Organisation, Prof. Abubakar Sulaiman, has described as outright falsehood, a report credited to him that  Senate President Bukola Saraki had conceded defeat in last Saturday’s Kwara Central senatorial election.

Sulaiman, in a statement, said he had neither spoken with the author of the report, one Arowona AbdulAziz, nor issued a statement on the position of Saraki and the PDP on the outcome of the National Assembly election in the state.

He added: “If anything, I align myself with the position of the PDP’s agent at the collation centre for Kwara Central Senatorial election, Hon. Isiaka Magaji, that we noted that the election was characterized by electoral malpractices in some polling units across the four local government areas in the district.

“Hon. Magaji made it known to the INEC returning officer in the district, Professor Oluwole Olatunbosun, that PDP agents at each of the four local government areas of Kwara Central Senatorial district discovered massive fraud in the collation of results at the local government areas,” he said.

He added that they were still studying the outcome of the elections in the state and would make their position known soon.

“We use this opportunity to call on our members and supporters to remain calm and maintain peace, law and order,” he stated.