Tony Iyoha, an agent of the Peoples Democratic Social gathering (PDP) within the Edo governorship election, has accused the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) of producing the outcomes of the ballot.
The collation of Edo governorship election outcomes commenced on Sunday morning after failing to kick off on Saturday.
Iyoha spoke in an interview with Come up TV shortly after the suspension of the collation of the outcomes.
The All Progressive Congress (APC) is presently main with 244,549 votes, successful 10 out of the 16 LGAs introduced up to now, adopted by the PDP, which has recorded 195,954 votes from six LGAs.
The Labour Social gathering LP is trailing with 13,348 votes.
For many components of the collation course of, the PDP agent pushed again in opposition to outcomes from varied LGAs, describing a few of them as “manufactured.”.
“It’s what we now have been lowered to as Nigerians on this nation, the place a folks will exit and vote, and after exercising their franchise, you come out and manufacture,” Iyoha mentioned.
“You heard me; I continuously use the phrase. I’m a health care provider of engineering and as anyone who has gone by means of quite a lot of elections. I feel that is one other low.
“That is the primary time. It’s the primary time we see folks come out. They selected a candidate who by no means talked to the those that he needs to control.
“The identical those that got here out that he didn’t converse to on what he was going to do for them, on the problems.
“After which INEC comes out to inform us that this identical individual that didn’t speak to them in any respect, as in opposition to different candidates that even hung out with them, talked to them, got here on Come up, got here on AIT, on Channels.
“It’s the primary time we’re seeing you telling us that the folks got here collectively to vote this individual.
“Have a look at these numbers. You had been right here. Then your cameras had been in all probability on the again. I didn’t know if these ones had been right here too.
“Once they introduced the Esan determine, you heard the laughs on the again. It’s shameful, my good friend.”
The PDP agent questioned the credibility of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC), citing cases the place collation in most wards and LGAs was not carried out in accordance with rules.
“Collation in most native governments, or in most wards, weren’t finished. From INEC rules, collation begins from the ward, you go to the native authorities collation,” Iyoha mentioned.
“From the native authorities coalition, is what we now have right here immediately. You come to the state coalition middle.
“Yesterday, outcomes had been moved from the ward. No collation finished.”
Earlier, officers of INEC appealed to aggrieved events to embrace the suitable channel to problem the end result of the election.
The collation train is predicted to renew by 5pm on Sunday.
