How INEC staff exposed alleged PDP rigging in Edo election

How INEC staff exposed alleged PDP rigging in Edo election - Aggrieved APC candidate reveals

- Aggrieved APC candidate in Edo state, Ehiozuwa Agbonyinma, has accused PDP of rigging election in the state

- Agbonyinma, who lost to PDP candidate Jude Ise-Idehen , said INEC staff told him the election was rigged

-The APC candidate has, however, vowed to purse justice and get his mandate back

Ehiozuwa Agbonyinma, the candidate of the All Progressive Congress in Edo, has made a revelation into how the last National Assembly election held in Ikpoba-Okha/Egor federal constituency was allegedly rigged by the opposition.

Addressing newsmen after leading a protest to the office of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), The Nation reports that Ehiozuwa said he received information from the INEC officer assigned to the state opening a can of worms on how Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rigged the election for its candidate.

Legit.ng gathers that Ehiozuwa lost the election to Jude Ise-Idehen of the PDP, with the former insisting that APC won the election in Edo state

He said: “When I received the call, I was shocked. The man thought I was the PDP chairman. He opened up on how he was able to manipulate the system for the PDP and told me to bring the balance payment.

“The man said he was the collating officer for ward six. He said they gave him the number of Ise-Idehen but he decided to call the PDP chairman first.

“He has been arrested with others he confessed to have participated in the crime. The security agencies are doing their work and they would soon come out with their findings.

“I insisted that the election was manipulated in Egor/Ikpoba-Okha constituency. President won the presidential election in Edo state. There are so many glaring evidence. The election was rigged and manipulated by PDP leaders in collaboration with some INEC officials.''

The aggrieved Agbonyinma said upon receiving the call, he instituted a legal standing mandating INEC to give his lawyer access to the copies of the original result sheet.

He, however, vowed to pursue justice to the last end.

He said: “My lawyer wrote to INEC seeking to get access to Certify True Copies of the results all unit result sheets.

“The letter was approved by the resident electoral commissioner. This is to enable us file our case within the stipulated 21 days. The legal adviser is now violating section 104 of the evidence act. He is telling us to wait till after the Saturday House of Assembly election.

''There is a motive to derail the wheel of progress. This INEC Legal Adviser is frustrating us.

“Some INEC staff has been arrested and are presently making confession. I will pursue justice in line with the law. Many of them have confessed how to they colluded to rig us out. I am calling on INEC to do the right thing.”

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that The chairman of the Enugu state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ben Nwoye, on Thursday, March 7, led supporters of the party to the INEC headquarters in the state, demanding the removal of the Resident Electoral Commissioner Emeka Ononamadu over alleged bias.

Legit.ng regional reporter in Enugu, Ikpechukwu Chinedu, reported that Nwoye, who came in company of the party’s flag bearer in the Saturday, March 9 gubernatorial election, Senator Ayogu Eze, accused the REC of masterminding the stealing of some electoral materials from the CBN where they were kept and not allowing them to inspect sensitive materials.

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