Edo Elections

Edo Decides: Review Results Before Final Declaration -PDP Tells INEC

The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has appealed to the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, to review the collated results for the Edo governorship election before the final announcement.

The state chairman of the party, Anthony Aziegbemi made this appeal on Sunday in Benin.

Aziegbemi said that the entries the electoral officers made were totally different from the actual results uploaded on the INEC IREV at the polling units.

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According to him, the results had allegedly been unjustly inflated in favour of the All Progressives Congress, APC, through deducted votes from the PDP.

He alleged that in Akoko-Edo, votes recorded in the polling unit results uploaded on the IREV showed that the APC obtained 25,010 while 34,847 votes was recorded in the EC8C declared by the local government returning officer.

“While for the PDP, the results uploaded on the IREV is 18,620 but 15,865 was recorded on the EC8C declared by the returning officer.

“It would interest you to know that in ward 9, Akoko Edo LGA, from the 36 polling units results uploaded on the IREV, the total votes obtained by APC is 2,350 while 9,104 was entered into the EC8C result for APC.

”The total votes for PDP is 1,359 while 633 was entered in the EC8C.

“Also, in Ward six Akoko Edo, where elections did not hold in units 12, 17, 15, 18, 14 and 16, results were returned for the said polling units in the ward result sheet (EC8C), ” he said.

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Aziegbemi also alleged that, in Egor, votes recorded in the polling unit results uploaded on the IREV showed that the APC obtained 10,972 votes while 16,760 votes was recorded in the EC8C declared.

The state party chairman added that there are also similar discrepancies in Etsako West, were results uploaded on the IREV are totally different from the results recorded on the EC8C declared by the returning officer.

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