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JUST IN: Dino Melaye, Others Walk Out From Collation Centre, Accuses INEC Of Fraud
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Dino Melaye and other party agents have walked out from the collation centre in Abuja.
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Dino has accused INEC of fraud.
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Agents of PDP and some other parties had called on INEC to halt the collation of results until results are uploaded to IREV.
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Senator Dino Melaye, the Spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party Campaign Organisation with some other party agents have walked out of the collation centre in Abuja.
Melaye said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is compromised.
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Dino had earlier threatened that the PDP would reject the result of the 2023 presidential election.
Dino Melaye and Emeka Ihedioha of the PDP had accused INEC of violating the Electoral Act by going ahead with the result collation and announcement despite not uploading the results on the iREV portal.
Agents of some other parties, including those of the SDP, LP and ADP had expressed similar views.
The aggrieved agents all walked out of the venue.
INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu rejected the demand of the agents and said the protest would continue.
INEC then continued with the collation exercise.
We are not here to rubber stamp the electoral fraud that has been declared by INEC and APC, Mr Melaye told journalists after the election.
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“INEC is compromised. APC has influenced INEC,” he said.
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