It was a tales of woes for the Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and its candidate as the party on Thursday rejected outrightly the results of the Edo Governorship election that was conducted on Wednesday.
The party rejected the results in a press conference addressed by the state party chairman, Mr Dan Orbih, which also had in attendance, the governorship candidate, Mr Osagie Ize-Iyamu, in Benin; even as INEC was still announcing the results showed live on television
The party and it’s candidate said they were rejecting the results because it was fabricated and a pre-determined results by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and Edo government.
Orbih alleged that the two weeks extension of the poll by the electoral body, was to allow for more time to perfect the manipulation of the governorship election.
According to Orbih, “You will recall that our state Publicity Secretary had briefed the press less than 48 hours to the elections what is playing out now. If you go by the results that were announced at the polling units and wards across the state, it shows that PDP would have won by over 30,000 votes.
“What the INEC is announcing 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 these results as been announced by the INEC and we are coming out early enough to make this known.”
Orbih said the cancellation of some results on the basis of failed card readers, was part of deliberate plan to also manipulate the poll.
The state chairman said the areas were results were canceled, we’re strong hold of the PDP.
“I wonder what incident form is for. Voters should not be made to suffer unduly for the inefficient of card readers, he stated.
He said the results been announced by the INEC, was clearly at variance with the wide acclaimed turn out of voters, that was also acknowledged by the electoral umpire.
On his part, the governorship candidate Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu said he aligned himself with the position of the party and alleged that results were fabricated to suit the APC.
“The results are not a true reflection of what happened in the field. The INEC only played a script written by the government of Edo state. The delay in announcing the results by INEC was purely pre-determine to do what they are doing now which is to announce fabricated results that are completely in invariance with what happened in the units.
“ To show that the results were pre-determined and written if you look at the figures announced by INEC now you will find out that it does not reflex the huge turnout which they INEC attested to and by the time they finish it will appears as if this is the lowest turnout ever in Edo gubernatorial elections.
