Head — Vice-President Atiku Abubakar yesterday in declaring that no presidential election took place in the country last Saturday, vowed to challenge the result yet to be declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Atiku who is the presidential candidate of the Action Congress (AC) told journalists on arrival at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja from Yola, Adamawa State, that he would not accept the results that would be announced by the Prof. Maurice Iwu-led Commission, pointing out that the Commission had no credibility.

The Vice-President, who denied calling for an Interim National Government maintained that such a system of governance is unconstitutional.

He maintained that what took place last Saturday across the country was not real election but were "symbolic" to give the impression that an election took place.

According to him, "the INEC only tried to hold elections in some urban centres", maintaining that "voting did not take place in most rural areas where 70 per cent Nigerian populace live.

"Don't be deceived. You are only in Yola, an urban centre. Yola is a state capital for instance. What actually the ruling party did was to have symbolic election in the state capitals in the urban areas and show it to Nigerians as if elections took place.

"But more than 70 per cent of Nigerians live outside urban areas where no elections took place. I don't want you to be deceived, election did not take place," the AC flagbearer said.

Alhaji Atiku also said that in some cases where other parties won, the results were awarded to the ruling PDP, insisting that elections did not take place in Nigeria .

He maintained that given what took place last Saturday nationwide, it would be difficult for the INEC to declare anybody winner of the presidential election.

"How can anyone be declared a winner whether myself or any other person. Of course the ruling party will declare itself winner. We had always suspected that, that is what they will do. I would not accept any result," he insisted.

The Vice-President warned that the nation was going to enter a new phase in its annals where it would be faced with a one-party rule, saying it would still be President Olusegun Obasanjo that would be ruling the country.

The AC candidate said he would immediately head for the court as soon as any result was released by the INEC on the presidential poll.

He said he would do this because he had an implicit confidence in the judiciary

Reacting to call for an Interim National Government now holding sway in the country, Vice-President Abubakar said he had never joined anyone to advocate for such form of government.

According to him, "I have never advocated or asked for any extra-constitutional means of governance in the country".

He told reporters that what he had been saying together with some opposition leaders in the country was that President Obasanjo and the INEC lacked the credibility and impartiality to conduct free and fair poll for the citizens to express their free will.

On the issue of allegation made by Presidential spokesman, Mallam Uba Sani, that a presidential candidate and the Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani were behind attempts to bomb the INEC headquarters in Abuja, Abubakar said there was no iota of truth in the allegation.

Abubakar described the statement as reckless, saying Sani was known for such past time.

"You must have known several reckless statements from Uba Sani, there is no iota of truth in it," he said.