Alh Isah Liman Kantigi, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the just concluded governorship elections in Niger State, has accepted the result of the election as the will of God.
He made this known in a statement signed and made available to newsmen in Minna, Niger state.
Kantigi, who scored 387,476 votes, was the major contender for the gubernatorial poll, coming first runner up to Hon. Umar Mohammed Bago of the All Progressives Congress, APC, who won the election with 469,896 votes.
“God monitors every situation. There is time for everything, elections have come and gone. The thing there is that, we are looking at issue where there were mistakes, whether from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, or from our own human greed. Whether the winner won through the popularity he has, or he had used other means or whatever. We are looking at so many other means” Kantigi said.
He added: “For me, whatever will not happen on Wednesday to me will never happen. If it is going to happen on Thursday, no human being can make it happen on Wednesday, it must happen on the Thursday approved by God.
“However, let us gather around whosoever God has put on the throne and join hands to look at the problems of Niger State. Believe me in all honesty, Niger State is being abandoned with a lot of lapses”.
On whether he will approach the court over the election results, the statement said, “It’s too early to mention, we have to go back to the drawing board, so it depends on the answers to the questions we are asking. But, there is no court that is higher than the court of God, but if decides the party (PDP) so wish, they have the mandate to do so if they have the resources”.
Kantigi then warned the Niger State Governor-elect to be careful of sycophants who are out for their gains and not in the interest of the common man in the state.
