The All Progressives Congress, APC, Edo State chapter has alleged foul play in the just-concluded governorship election in the state.
According to Mayaki: “Our people were arbitrarily arrested, many of the figures were fabricated.
“Areas where we won, they cancelled them. They decreased the votes in areas we had advantage.
“They rejected our results and jerked up theirs.”
Mayaki also alleged that there was an arbitrary arrest of local party members, who could have resisted the outrage, while the state Governor, Godwin Obaseki was busy allegedly “diverting attention with false alarm.”
“Obaseki shouted that he was being rigged out and blamed INEC at the initial stage but that was to divert attention from the evil going on in the field”, the statement said.
[…] election in, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), was won by Governor Godwin Obaseki of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in spite of the impressive performance of the standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress […]