The PUNCH reports that the PDP National Collation Agent, Dino Melaye, and some other party agents had staged a walkout of the International Conference Centre in Abuja, alleging that the Independent National Electoral Commission has been compromised.
But Adamu, who addressed newsmen during a parley at the party secretariat in Abuja, described their actions as ‘childish’ and a calculated attempt to rubbish the elections.
While urging the opposition to take the result in good faith as ‘good sportsmen’, the former governor of Nasarawa State noted that the laws of the country also provide channels for the redress of electoral grievances.
He said, “I would be remiss if I fail to condemn in the strongest possible terms the shameful conduct of the leadership of PDP and the Labour Party in their unwarranted attempts to sabotage the elections and throw the country into chaos and avoidable crisis. It is a pity that they take their loss so badly. They ought to be good sportsmen and women in the political arena.
“Their protest walk out from the collation centre was childish but clearly a calculated attempt to rubbish the elections and impugn the integrity of the electoral umpire. Their call for the cancellation of the elections over their unproven allegations of electoral fraud must be the height of diabolical desperation.
“Nothing in our laws and the constitution gives aggrieved individuals and groups the right to abort the unequivocal choices freely made by the people in their wisdom. Power belongs to the people and the people must be allowed to exercise it in the best way they choose in instituting the government of their choice.
“Our laws provide channels for the redress of electoral grievances. We urge those who feel aggrieved to avail themselves of those channels to seek redress. To set the house on fire in pursuit of a rat is not an act of courage or patriotism. It stands condemnable.
“We are happy to see that the people have seen through their unpatriotic antics and rejected their attempts to set the country on fire. We commend the highly placed and patriotic former public officers who instantly rose up in defence of the conduct of the elections and the election results and condemned the saboteurs.”
