Edo Election Controversy: PDP Accuses INEC of Altering Results to Benefit APC, Stages Protest

Though the final results of Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State were yet to be announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the Director General of the Asue/Ogie Campaign Council, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, early Sunday morning led a protest of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to INEC office alleging that the outcome was being skewed in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo.

While journalists and some party agents were waiting in the Conference Hall of the Commission’s office for the announcement of the results, protesters numbering about 20 stormed the entrance gate.

Iduoriyekemwen said the PDP was cruising to victory but the information available to them was that there were plans to mutilate the final results that would not reflect the wishes of the voters.

He also alleged that the leader of the APC in the state, and former governor, Adams Oshiomhole, and the reinstated deputy governor of the state, Philip Shaibu, were thumb-printing ballot papers to close the gap with which the PDP was leading.

A visibly agitated Iduoriyekemwen yelled at about 2.27 am that “We will not accept this; we will contest it”.

They were however dispersed by the police shortly after speaking to journalists through the barricade.