国际英语资讯:Nigerias main opposition party rejects collated presidential poll results_时事

国际英语资讯:Nigerias main opposition party rejects collated presidential poll results

ABUJA, Feb. 25 -- Nigeria's main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday rejected results of the weekend's presidential election being collated by the country's electoral body in Abuja.

In a statement signed by its national chairman, Uche Secondus, the PDP said the results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are disputable.

"All results currently being announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is incorrect, thus unacceptable to our party and people," the statement said.

The party's rejection of the election results came a few hours after Nigeria fully started the final collation of the presidential election on Monday afternoon with the electoral chief, Mahmood Yakubu, leading the process amid very tight security.

Results from less than a third of Nigeria's 36 states have been collated so far by the INEC.

The PDP, however, said it is forced to take a stand and make its pronouncements "at this crucial point because our democracy is under threat of derailment".

The opposition party stated that it has collation centers across the country, of which it claimed the international community is well aware and results declared so far by INEC are contrary to what its (PDP) agents had recorded.

Meanwhile, the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) party has rejected the claims by its rival party, describing it as "unsubstantiated and wild claims" seeking to put a question mark around INEC and damage the faith of the electorate in the democratic process.