Addressing the press on Monday in Maiduguri, Mr. Bolori said he would prove to court that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and security agents had connived with government officials to rig the polls in favour of the ruling APC. APC’s Mr. Garbai won with a margin of over 80,000 votes ahead six other candidates who contested the vacant seat. But Mr. Bolori, who was the major challenger of the ruling APC candidate, said original results declared at various polling units in the 8 local government areas that formed the senatorial district were all altered overnight. He said his party was shocked that such electoral irregularities could be allowed to happen under the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that ha​s the slogan of doing things according to rules and due process. “We are here to express ​​our gratitude to our supporters and indeed the good people of Borno state who have come out in large number to give us their support in our sincere quest to liberate our state from the hands of these area-men administrators. “We also want to clearly make a case that the election was not free, not fair and not properly conducted. “Our concern is that this is the first election under General Buhari’s administration and that if they cannot conduct a free and fair election in a single senatorial district; then we are very concerned over what will happen in the forthcoming Bayelsa and Kogi states governorship elections. “And I want to clearly state that this is just the beginning of our struggle; and this attitude of the INEC, the security agents will not in any way frustrate us. “We are, from now on, going to pose ourselves as a credible and strong opposition in the state, while we pursue our mandate that was being stolen from us in broad day (light), until we liberate our people from these folks. “We are compiling all the original results of the elections which are contrary to what is presented and declared by the INEC, and then after that we will go to the court of law,” the PDP candidate ​said.]]>