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The member, representing Ovia Federal Constituency, Edo State, within the Home of Representatives, Mr. Dennis Idahosa, has referred to as on the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) to uphold the first that produced him because the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State.
Idahosa was declared candidate of Edo APC within the primaries held on February 17 earlier than it was declared inclusive following protest by some social gathering members.
Nevertheless, in a shadow train, held on Thursday, February 22, the Senator representing Edo Central District within the Senate, Senator Monday Okpebholo was named candidate of the social gathering.
Nevertheless in a letter to the Chairman of the INEC, by his authorized agency, Wole Olanipekun & Co and dated March 4, sighted by THISDAY, Idahosa maintained that the first performed by the social gathering and duly monitored by the Fee, remained the genuine main of the social gathering.
He described the opposite main performed on the twenty second of February the place he was allotted 6,541 votes as a charade and urged INEC to ignore similar.
In keeping with the connected paperwork to the letter, Idahosa mentioned: “The file of INEC/the Fee will present that, below your management, the Fee monitored the Edo State APC main election for the nomination of the Governorship candidate of the APC pursuant to the prior notification that the first election will particularly maintain on seventeenth of February, 2024.
“The first election was certainly held, and I garnered 40,453 votes, a duplicate of the consequence licensed by INEC is connected herein with this letter.
“INEC’s report of monitoring the election confirms that, on the finish of the method, I used to be returned because the duly elected candidate of the APC, a duplicate of the INEC report as licensed by the Fee is connected.
“The APC main election committee that performed the election additionally confirmed that I received the election as evidenced by a report signed by all members of the committee (and not using a single occasion of dissent).
“The APC subsequently confirmed to INEC that the first election held as scheduled on seventeenth February, 2024; nonetheless, with out giving any cause, indicated that the election was inconclusive and shall be accomplished on twenty second February, 2024 and invited INEC to watch the completion train.”
Idahosa requested the Fee to take cognizance of the February seventeenth main in accepting and publishing the social gathering’s nominated candidate for the Edo State governorship ballot slated for September.
“The Fee can even admire that there are pending reliefs for injunction and is urged to not take step that may both preempt the courtroom of prejudice of ongoing judicial course of,” he declared.
