 And joining us on news now to give more insights on the polls is the Chairman of the Liga State Chapter of the PDP, Digi Doherty. Thanks for joining us. This is... Mr Doherty, can you hear us? Yes, I think I can hear you now. Thanks for joining us and welcome to news now very well. All right, so let's quickly talk about the elections today. Tell us your thoughts quickly. Well, my thought is not different from what I said earlier today. The turnout was shocking. It was really very bad for democracy. Today is one of the darkest days in my 23, 24 years in politics. Today seems to be a day where, like Babaji Dey, some of you said, our governor, that people express themselves. They express themselves by not showing up at the polls. They express themselves by them staying at home, by them not coming to the polling units, by them showing that they do not believe in the system anymore. They do not believe in the empires of the council elections anymore. I'm very happy that the governor mentioned that there was a low turnout. Now, we are the opposition party. And being the opposition party, if you follow the different various black spots that we have in the state, the crisis had started since last night. As of this morning, I probably went to bed maybe at about 4.30. Koshofe was already boiling. Oshofe was already boiling. Amu Adolfine was already boiling. And then some facts of Agege, they had, even in Agege, they had started shooting as of Thursday. You understand? So, it is my duty and the duty of we as leaders of the party to make sure that Lagos state stays peaceful. Lagos state does not lose its youth because of politics. Lagos state does not erupt the whole country into flames. And that's what we tried to, that's what we tried to manage today. All right, Mr. Doherty, I want to quickly go ahead. There were so much irregularities right from the distribution of sensitive materials up to the polling unit, up to the collection of the results. Thank you. All right, I was going to quickly ask about irregularities that you may have noticed. But I want to speak about the PDP now. You've mentioned about the low turnout. And you said that that is the way that the people have expressed their feelings towards the electoral process. But do you think it's also a failure of the PDP to enlighten residents about voting? Do you think it's also evidence that the PDP has also failed to show people why they should vote for their candidates, maybe? Because if nobody's interested, it maybe is because both parties and every other party that contested in the elections has failed to show people good enough reasons why they should come out and ensure that they vote for their candidates. So do you think the PDP also failed in that regard? Well, the PDP is number one, the PDP is at the position part. Number two, the PDP does not have the wherewithal to take charge of the publicity of this election. That is the job of number one, the state government. Number two, Lasse headed by Justice Felix. You understand, I said it at different forums that Justice Felix and her team should gear up in synthesizing the populace, especially the traditional rulers. The traditional rulers as well as the ballots and poor consent cannot just be coming to stakeholders' meetings. They need to be engaged financially, socially and in every other way. Also the religious bodies, they need to be engaged. These are the areas that we could use as a stepping stone towards connecting with the electorate. Now, as far as PDP is concerned, it has always made our job to protect the democracy that we ushered in to this country. You understand? And that is why we seem to take the raw end of the stick. Today, I have to tell those in Kosovo, they should stand down. I have to tell those in Kosovo, they should stand down. I have to tell those in Agige, they should stand down. But this cost us, it cost us, you know, in terms of we need to understand. And at the end of the day, it doesn't make sense. The people have taken their stand. Their stand is they do not believe in those, the empires of this election. That is just the simple thing. It's not really an issue of PDP or the opposition party being liable or anything. Those that have been governing the state for the past 20 something years are the ones that are responsible. They are responsible for us to come out. They are responsible for the low turnout. They are responsible for the rigging. They are responsible for everything that comes out. As far as PDP is concerned, we are just coming there. Our people are supposed to come there to come and vote. But then we start telling our people to come out and they say, look, your vote isn't going to, our vote for you isn't going to come. Let them sit down at home instead of being in the sun. And then they get to the collecting center and then they change the vote. That is what they're saying today. So what do you do? And that's why you see multiple, multiple, multiple, quadruple, thumbprinting all over the entire state by the A to C. All right. Mr. Doherty, we hope that we can bring you back during the week so we can speak about these allegations that you've put out concerning rigging and also talk very likely on the relevance of the local government level, the local government basically and the local council, which might also be one of the reasons a lot of people didn't show up. But we'll talk about it sometime during the week. Thank you very much. Looking forward to seeing you. Thank you very much. So you get notified about fresh news updates.