- Safiu Kehinde
Edo state’s Peoples Democratic Party’s governorship candidate, Asue Ighodalo, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Nigerian Police Force of complicity over the collation of results.
Following the conclusion of polls across the state yesterday, Ighodalo visited one of the coalition centres on Sunday where he decried the shadiness of the exercise.
He narrated how the party agents were denied access to the INEC headquarters following a directive to transfer all the results to the headquarters.
“We are not quite sure if what is happening. There supposed to have been some collation in some of the local governments. All of a sudden, some people came in, threw tear gas and kind of threw everybody that was there outside the office.
“They now insisted that all of those collation should come to the INEC headquarters. The problem is that our agents started telling us that they are not allowed into the headquarters.
“There are too many funny things going on all of a sudden. And there seems to be INEC complicity, Police complicity working together. And this cannot be right for democracy in this country.
“They are trying to suppress the will of the people of Edo state and it will not happen. Edo state people will stand and fight for their rights.” Ighodalo said