The People’s Democratic Party(PDP) has reacted to what it tagged “illegal interruption of collation of Edo State Governorship Election results.”
Addressing the Press, Adamawa State Governor, Umar Fintiri, who is the Chairman of the PDP Governorship Campaign Council, said “the collation process was violently interrupted in several local government areas across the state.”
He asserted that in some local government areas in Edo South collation processes were stopped “and moved illegally to the state headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) in Benin on the instructions of an Assistant Inspector General (AIG) in complete breach of the statutory collation process.”
According to Fintiri, “affected party agents and representatives were then ordered to converge on the INEC state headquarters in Aduwawa, Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area for the completion of the collation exercise. Upon arrival, agents of the PDP were not allowed into INEC state office for the exercise.
“On the other hand, agents of the APC were allowed unfettered access into the INEC premises to participate in the collation process. This was also in breach of the electoral act section on neutrality as well as the rules and regulations published for these elections.”
Going further, Fintiri disclosed that “it took the protest of Governor Godwin Obaseki to make an entry into the state INEC office and register the displeasure of the PDP with the irregularities of collation process.”
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