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Ize-Iyamu Rejects Result

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Friday, September 30th, 2016
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, yesterday, rejected the final result of Wednesday’s election even before it was announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission

 

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Although collation is still ongoing at the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the result of the Edo state governorship election.
Ize-Iyamu, who addressed newsmen at his Benin residence, yesterday, while collation was still ongoing, described the results being announced by INEC as a “rape of democracy”.
He said his party (PDP) monitored the election through its agents across the state.

 
“Contrary to claim that PDP brought in 8,000 militants, the election showed that PDP is law-abiding and did not involve in illegality. The delays in announcing official result by INEC was in order to announce predetermined fabricated results,” he said.

 
“The figures being announced by INEC do not represent the massive turnout. We have told our agents to bring all the results issued at the polling units. We do not want to rely on the messages they sent. In the next three or four days, we will have complete record. From findings, it is clear a lot of manipulation has taken place,” the PDP governorship candidate alleged.

 

 
Chairman of the PDP in Edo, Dan Orbih alleged that INEC conspired with the APC government to truncate the wish of the people.
Like Ize-Iyamu, Orbih said the results announced were at a complete variance with what the party got from its agents and independent observers.

 

 
He alleged that the two-week extension of the poll by the electoral body was to allow for more time to perfect the manipulation of the process.
“You will recall that our state publicity secretary had briefed the press less than 48 hours to the elections on what is playing out now,” he said.

 

“What INEC announced is clearly different from what we got from our agents and independent observers in the 192 wards and over 2,000 units across the state.
“We are rejecting the results being announced by INEC and we are coming out early enough to make this known,” Orbih stated.

 
He said the cancellation of some results on the basis of failed card reader was part of a deliberate plan to also manipulate the poll.

 
Orbih alleged that the areas where results were cancelled were the stronghold of the PDP.
“I wonder what the Incident Form is for. Voters should not be made to suffer unduly for the inefficiency of card readers,” he said.
“If you go by the results that were announced at the polling units and wards across the state, it showed that PDP would have won by over 30,000 votes.

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