EDO ELECTION: Battle continues today between PDP and APC

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EDO STATE GUBER ELECTION – As about two million eligible voters
in Edo State go to the polls today, the All Progressives Congress and
the opposition Peoples Democratic Party have continued to trade blame on
the alleged plot of some officials of the Independent National
Electoral Commission to compromise the credibility of the exercise.

The
PDP on Tuesday accused the APC government of Governor Adams Oshiomhole
and the electoral umpire of allegedly inducing election supervisors to
compromise the outcome of the poll in nine out of the 18 local
government areas.

The state Publicity Secretary of the
PDP, Chris Nehikhare, who spoke to journalists in Benin, said the party
had received information of an alleged distribution of N2m by a senior
official of INEC to the supervisors on behalf of the state government.

Nehikhare,
who also alleged that the results of the affected areas had “been
written”, ready for announcement on Wednesday (today), vowed that the
PDP and its supporters would resist with “the last drop of their blood”
any attempt to switch election results.

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He stated, “It
has come to our attention that INEC and the state government have
seriously compromised the election that is going to take place tomorrow
(Wednesday). People involved in this conspiracy are those that have
leaked this information to the PDP and to us to act very fast.

“She (INEC official) has been sharing N2m to supervisors in at least nine local government areas of Edo State.

“What
they have done is that they have written results for the nine local
government (areas) on behalf of the APC. These results are being held by
the supervisors and the collation officers at a point where they plan
to switch the results with the real ones at the local government level
once the election is done.” MORE
Source: Punchng

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