The spokesman for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Council, Dino Melaye, claimed on Tuesday that the results from President Muhammadu Buhari’s polling unit in both the 2019 and 2023 presidential elections were identical. Melaye stated, “The result of President Buhari’s Polling Unit in 2019 was APC – 523, PDP – three. In 2023, during the election held on February 25, the result from the same polling unit was again APC – 523, PDP – three. Nobody died, nobody turned 18, and there were no new registered voters; this is just one example of the numerous vote allocations that occurred.”
Melaye made these remarks during a joint press conference in Abuja, where the PDP, along with the Labour Party and the African Democratic Congress, called for a fresh election. The opposition parties also demanded that Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, step aside.
However, a fact-check by The revealed that Melaye’s assertion regarding the vote counts from the 2023 election is inaccurate. In 2019, President Buhari, representing the APC, indeed won his polling unit, PU003 at Sarkin Yara Ward A in Daura, Katsina, with 523 votes, while the PDP’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, received only three votes. In contrast, the results from the 2023 election indicate that Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, won in the same polling unit by securing 215 votes. He outperformed other major candidates, including Atiku of the PDP, who garnered 51 votes, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, who received 37 votes.
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