The chairman of the Edo State Labour Party, Kelly Ogbaloi, has called for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to annul the state’s rerun election on Saturday and set a new date for it.
At a press conference in Benin, Ogbaloi responded to the rerun poll by saying that it had been marred by violence from thugs who were allegedly PDP supporters in the state.
Further, he said that party members, including Derek Uhunmwagho, a candidate for the party, were savagely assaulted and driven from the voting places where the rerun election was being held.
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He clarified that the Labour Party entirely distanced itself from the farce in which thugs had taken control of the umpire’s duties.
He also claimed that the Labour Party was denied over 2,000 votes in the most recent election, which INEC had committed to investigate and fix.
In a statement responding to the Edo State rerun election, Julius Abure, the national chairman of the Labour Party, claimed that reports that reached the party’s national secretariat in Abuja indicated that there had not been a rerun election in Edo State because the state government allegedly sent PDP agents to prevent candidates and supporters of the party from casting ballots in all the affected polling units.
According to Abure, the labor party candidates had previously won all of the polling places in the local government areas where the rerun elections were held, but because INEC officials were compromised, they chose to invalidate the results and order a new round of voting.
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“We are already challenging the earlier results at the election tribunal and we are very sure of getting a favourable judgement at the tribunal.
“I want to call on our candidates and supporters to remain calm as we believe that justice will be done by the judiciary which is the last hope of the common man,” Abure declared.
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