Mr. Ayuba Gufwan, the Peoples Democratic Party chairmanship candidate in Mangu Local Government Area in the October 10 local government polls in Plateau State has called on PDP supporters to boycott the rerun election slated for Thursday , October 18.

The News Agency of Nigeria, reports that the Plateau State Independent Electoral Commission declared that the election was inconclusive in the area following alleged violence in two polling units.

The electoral body had said that the two units , Fomulam in Kerang and Kantoma in Mangu-Halle , had a combined total of 2, 000 votes.

The Chairman of the commission, Mr Fabian Ntung , had announced in Jos on Tuesday that the rerun election would be held in the two areas on Thursday , so as to complete the process and declare the results .

Reacting to the development , Gufwen , in a press statement he personally signed , described the said rerun as “illegal and fraudulent ”
“As a democrat , I cannot be part of such illegality.

I have consulted with my party and supporters and we have collectively resolved not to participate in the illegal exercise planned by PLASIEC so as not to give legitimacy to this travesty of justice.

“We hereby call on all our supporters to shun the rerun by PLASIEC. We also want them to remain calm and be law abiding until the right thing is done and the real result announced in our favour ,” Gufwan said in the statement made available to NAN on Wednesday in Mangu. ’
Gufwen claimed that he won the poll by scoring 60 ,806 votes against the 55221 votes polled by his APC rival.

“The difference is a massive 5 ,585 votes. PLASIEC cannot bury that result ,” he claimed.

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