Senator Suleiman Adokwe, an outgoing federal lawmaker representing Nasarawa South, has a theory about his political party’s recent electoral woes.

According to him, top members of the Peoples Democratic Party connived with the All Progressives Congress during the March 28 presidential and National Assembly polls.

Speaking on Wednesday at the National Assembly, he alleged that “there was an institutional conspiracy” and that the “high level of betrayal suffered by Jonathan was unprecedented.”

Adokwe claimed that he was winning his election up to the midnight of Sunday, March 29, when most of the results of the polling units had been received and was only waiting for the announcement which did not occur till Monday.

He said he was shocked when the Independent National Electoral Commission’s returning officer announced the result and declared someone else as the winner.

“Let me say categorically that I lost the election due to the active collaboration of the PDP agents; that is what made it very sad,” he said.

“My best friends, who I appointed as my agents at the collation centres all sold out. Today, they can not look at me in the face, some of them had even ran away. It was a massive conspiracy to get me out of office.

“It is an institutional conspiracy, but we are trusting God who is above all institutions to vindicate us.”