Accept defeat, support Buhari – Niger Delta group tells Atiku
NDFVF also condemned the wild spread violence that claimed several lives during the elections in South South zone, especially, in Rivers State.
The body in a statement by its President, Harry Lawson and Secretary, Preye Wilson, at the end of an emergency meeting in Port Harcourt, yesterday, congratulated President Buhari on his victory at the poll and urged Atiku, PDP and the entire South South to accept the outcome of the February 23 election and work with the president to move Nigeria forward.
They called for a peaceful and credible governorship and state House of Assembly elections in the region come March 9, 2019.
The communique blamed the failure of Atiku to win the poll on the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, and other leaders and chieftains of the PDP. (Vanguard )