Isa Ashiru, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate for the March 18th, 2023 election in Kaduna State, has claimed victory and has never prayed that the poll be declared inconclusive.
He asked the people of Kaduna State to keep praying so that their mandate would be returned to them in the state.
During a news conference at his apartment over the weekend, Ashiru explained that there are grey areas that would be disputed at the court of appeal.
“The prayers of the good people of Kaduna State towards reclaiming our mandate has yielded fruitful results. The tribunal confirmed that the March 18th, 2023 election was not concluded, so declaring Uba San the winner was very wrong.”
“I want to make this clarification that after meeting with our legal team, we agreed that the tribunal has done its part but we still have to do a follow-up. So, we are going to the court of appeal to address some grey areas, and we have documents to support our claims
“Going by the tribunal’s judgement, a re-run has been declared in 22 polling units where elections were cancelled. In this case, for anybody to say that his victory was upheld by the tribunal in Kaduna State was wrong and misleading.
“It is very unfortunate that Governor Uba Sani said the tribunal upheld his election victory. This is unexpected of him, being a leader, especially of his status in a state like Kaduna, the Headquarters of the north.
“With the verdict of the tribunal, I know, we have won the race. We earlier approached the tribunal with the view to reclaiming the mandate and fortunately enough, the tribunal nullified the gubernatorial election that took place this year.
“I thank the good people of Kaduna State for their patience and commitment towards reclaiming their mandate. I have taken it upon myself with the leadership of the party and other key stakeholders in the state to see that we recover this stolen mandate.”