The Presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has thanked Nigerians for turning out to vote for him in their millions and confirmed that the initial indications from the PDP’s Simultaneous Vote Count shows PDP victory is assured.
Atiku in a statement issued in Abuja by his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Mr. Phrank Shaibu said ” I would like to sincerely thank the millions of people, who despite having to bear the additional burden of a postponed election, came out yesterday to vote for me and the other PDP candidates standing in this election.” He said with the PDP’s high tech, cloud-based SVG system- which is able to collate in real time the results from the 176,000 voting points across the nation. The Presidential candidate could boldly assure his supporters that victory was at hand.