The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the reported refusal by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to grant the party and its candidate, Asue Ighodalo, access to the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines and other materials used in the Edo state governorship election against the order of the court.
In a statement issued on Monday, October 8, PDP’s spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, alleged that INEC’s officials allegedly allowed thugs recruited by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to invade its office in Edo state, to cause confusion and frustrate the PDP from accessing these sensitive materials.
Ologunagba noted that the action of the INEC in Edo state therefore validates reports of criminal connivance of some INEC officials with the APC to obstruct the course of justice and suppress evidence of the manipulation and doctoring of election results which was clearly won by the PDP and its candidate.
As reported by Channels TV, he claimed that information available to the PDP indicates that “the heavily compromised INEC officials and the APC are working to alter the data in the BVAS machines, results sheets, ballot papers and other vital information in favour of the defeated APC candidate.”
Part of the statement reads:
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Meanwhile, TimesNow.com.ng reported that Senator Adams Oshiomhole reacted to the do-or-die affair comment made by Governor Godwin Obaseki before the Edo state governorship election.
Oshiomhole threw a jibe at Governor Obaseki, saying that the Edo state governor’s political career is dead.
The former governor of Edo state said Obaseki is politically dead after the people gave their votes to the APC candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo.
Source: TimesNow.com.ng
