Don’t judge us by outcome of August 16 by-election  —  ADC

By Bayo Wahab

The coalition-backed African Democratic Congress (ADC) has said that the enactment should not beryllium judged by the results of the caller by-elections held crossed 16 constituencies.

The elections held connected Saturday, August 16, to regenerate lawmakers who died oregon resigned aft the 2023 wide elections.

According to the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the ADC  failed to unafraid immoderate spot arsenic the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) won 12 of the 16 seats crossed 9 states.

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) secured 2 seats successful Anambra, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won 1 spot successful Oyo, portion the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) claimed 1 spot successful Kano.

Speaking connected Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ connected Wednesday, spokesperson of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Bolaji Abdullahi, attributed the party’s show to the timing of the predetermination and the ADC’s level of preparedness.

Asked wherefore the ADC had a mediocre outing successful the by-election, Bolaji said: “We’ve explained it, we’ve issued a statement, we’ve talked astir it respective times. For us, the predetermination happened little than a period aft we came into the party. Most of the candidates, we didn’t adjacent cognize them, and that’s wherefore we said we cannot justice the ADC by that.

“You’re conscionable talking astir america transitioning into establishing our existent enactment astatine this time. So, the by-election that you talked astir happened excessively aboriginal successful presumption of modulation for the party. So, we don’t privation to beryllium judged by the result of that election; determination are different elections coming, and we volition beryllium acceptable for those.

Meanwhile, successful its archetypal absorption to the results of the election, the ADC, successful a connection attributed its mediocre show to wide violence, ballot buying, and irregularities allegedly perpetrated by the ruling party.

The enactment claimed that the predetermination was marred by vote-buying, ballot container snatching, elector intimidation, unit and alleged nonaccomplishment of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System, BVAS.

The station Don’t justice america by result of August 16 by-election  —  ADC appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.