African Democratic Congress (ADC) chieftain, Kola Ologbondiyan, has described the figures from the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primary as laughable, saying that Nigerians are questioning the numbers.
NewsWatch Nigeria reports that Ologbondiyan’s remark comes a few days after the APC presidential primary election, which saw President Bola Tinubu and sole challenger, Stanley Osifo, contesting for the ruling party’s ticket.
The exercise was conducted across 8,809 wards in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.
Tinubu emerged the winner of the primary with a total of 10.9 million votes, while Osifo polled 16,503 votes.
In an interview on Channels Television’s ‘The Morning Brief’ on Tuesday, Ologbondiyan questioned the election figures and expressed confidence that ADC’s presidential primary would be more credible.
He said, “Nigerians are laughing at the figures the All Progressive Congress (APC) brought out, and they are asking a question: ‘Where did they find it? Where did they get this one?’
“Nigerians have become more politically realistic, and on account of that, no matter what somebody is doing, a political party is doing, or a politician is doing, even if Nigerians are not speaking out, they are taking records of all that is happening.
“So on account of that, I’m not surprised by the volume of people that I saw or that are being brought out for the presidential primary, and mind you, if it were the delegate system, you can say people are being funded or bribed.
“We haven’t seen too much of that geometric counting in the African Democratic Congress (ADC), unlike what we witnessed in the APC, and I cannot deny the fact that I had seen one in Yobe, but I have also explained that the ADC is trying to make things different by insisting ahead of the primary election.
“We don’t want geometric counting. Whatever you have, bring it forward. Whatever you have recorded, bring it forward. We don’t need to go into moving it from numerical 1, jumping into 99, and going to numerical 100.”
Ologbondiyan also said ahead of the 2027 election, “somehow ADC has maybe a possibility of hope for Nigerians, and that’s why people are coming out on their own to participate in the process.”
