The governorship election in Edo State, south-south Nigeria may have be won and lost but some of the gladiators that contested in the polls have intensified their calls for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to cancel the entire result.
As the governor-elect, Godwin Obaseki of the All Progressives Congress, APC, looks towards his swearing-in and the all-important issue of forming a cabinet – of which he’s said no member of the opposition will belong – five candidates of the 19 that contested last week’s poll with him maintain that the figures INEC declared on national television were invented and far removed from what their agents had.
Chairman of the Inter-party Advisory Council, IPAC, Mr Frank Ukonga, who contested on the platform of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, spoke at a press conference in Benin City, the Edo State capital at the weekend, Vanguard writes.
“The results that INEC made public do not tally with what most, if not all, our agents came back home with. We are calling for the cancellation of the entire election because INEC gave APC the PDP votes”.
Similarly, Mr Andrew Igwemoh, of the Advanced Congress of Democrats, ACD, said there were glaring errors in the figures computed by INEC in a heavily flawed election.
“I am calling for the cancellation of the results especially that of Etsako West local government because what transpired on the field is not what INEC made public. The mathematical errors are too obvious to be ignored”.
While Dr Omorogieva Gbajumo, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, told Nigerians something was definitely afoot.
“It is clear that the votes declared by INEC are not correct. Even parties which were not on the ballot were allocated some votes by the electoral umpire which shows that something does not add up”.
The main opponent meanwhile, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for divine intervention.
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