The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has said that it
has what it called “facts” on how the last Saturday’s governorship
election was allegedly rigged in Ekiti State for the APC candidate,
Kayode Fayemi.
The party’s National Working Committee met in Abuja on Tuesday, where
they received and reviewed “all facts relating to the July 14, 2018
Ekiti state governorship election.”
It added that after the NWC members reviewed what was brought before
them, they came into a conclusion that INEC rigged the election in
favour of the rival All Progressives Congress.
It will be recalled that the commission on Sunday morning, declared Fayemi of the APC as winner of the election.
However, the candidate of the PDP, Prof. Kolapo Olusola and the former
ruling party insisted that the votes were doctored in favour of Fayemi.
The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in a
statement in Abuja on Wednesday, also accused INEC of pulling down the
results of the election from its website.
He said, “After a thorough examination of all hard facts, the NWC
reconfirms that the Independent National Electoral Commission doctored
the result of the election to favour the APC.
“The NWC notes that apart from the huge discrepancies between the
actual votes cast at the polling centres and the results released by
INEC, there is evidence that INEC pulled down the original result from
its database to accommodate the alterations.
“The NWC also has evidence indicating that the original result was in
favour of the PDP candidate, Prof. Kolapo Olusola before the figures
were altered.
“The NWC, after very exhaustive examination of all facts, confirms the
PDP candidate, Prof. Kolapo Olusola, clearly won the July 14, 2018,
governorship election.”
He called on INEC to correct what he called the error in the results it
announced, warning that if this was not done, the defeated party and its
candidate would seek redress at an election petition tribunal.
“The NWC, therefore, calls on the leadership of INEC to immediately
correct their results, apologise to the people of Ekiti State and be
ready to admit their falsifications before the tribunal so as to return
our mandate which was stolen at ‘gunpoint’ on July 14,” the PDP added.
