Edo: Funny Things Happened Overnight, Ighodalo Alleges Plot To Overturn Election

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate in Edo State, Dr Asue Ighodalo has expressed outrage over the relocation of the collation of the results from two Benin City local governments and what he termed as outrageous results of 100% turnout in areas of Edo North.

Speaking in the wee hours of Sunday after collation was aborted in Oredo and Ikpoba-Okha, Dr Ighodalo lamented what he called as the conspiracy between officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC and police to subvert the will of the people.

He said:

There is supposed to be collation in some local governments in Oredo and Ikpboba Okha and all of a sudden, some people came in threw tear gas and kind of drove out everybody that was there outside the office. They have now insisted that all of that collation should now come in into the INEC state headquarters. The problem was that our agents didn’t tell us that they were not being allowed into INEC headquarters. So, my deputy and I came in to find out why our agents were not being allowed into the INEC headquarters.

Too many funny things going on all of a sudden and there seems to be INEC complicity, police complicity working together. This cannot be right for democracy in this country.

They are trying to suppress the will of the people of Edo State and it will not happen. By God’s grace, Edo people will stand and fight for their rights.

All of a sudden you see all these funny results coming out from Edo North. It doesn’t make sense, how do you have the full number of (registered) voters when you know that averagely it is 25% coming out to vote? All of a sudden they are having 90%, 100%.

Everybody sees this clearly but they want to subvert democracy clearly by all means. The desperation for power by those who have nothing to offer the people of this country is just incredible.

The people of Edo State who have exercised their right to vote for the candidate that they want will stand up and fight for their votes. Its not about me, its about us.

GWG.ng reports that the assertions of Ighodalo on the funny developments at the collation centre forced Governor Godwin Obaseki to visit the INEC headquarters early on Sunday morning.

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