The recent step taken by the People’s Democratic Party’s governors to announce Edo State election result has been heavily condemned by scores of Nigerians.
Arbiterz reported that in a press conference on Sunday, ahead of INEC’s collation of results at its central Collation Centre in Benin City, PDP governors announced the Edo governorship results.
Addressing the press, the Governor of Adamawa State, Umaru Fintiri, flanked by other governors of the party, stated that the figures they announced were from “our collation agent that was ongoing before INEC disrupted the process.”
However, Nigerians have described the development as unnecessary, slamming the ruling party in the state for its unwarranted step.
Henry MD wrote: “The same Gov Fintri who went mad that a REC announced his own state election ahead of proper announcement! Most of these politicians are just shameless and have short memories!”
OlabisiLaw said, “This Gov Fintiri disappointed me. Something that Binani’s machinery attempted to do then.”
“The INEC is the only recognizable institution that’s charged with the tax of announcing election results. Any press conference regarding #EdoDecide2024 that’s not INEC’s is as good as nothing”, according to Yayaabba.
Alani wrote, “This is rubbish. Each time APC lost an election, they don’t descend so low. Seek your redress at the appropriate quarters. This really diminishes PDP, APC lost Bayelsa, Osun…no noise from them. They went to court to seek redress. PDP should learn at least!”
“Desperation makes alhaji fintirin not to mention the total vote figure between APC & PDP. The beauty of it all is the deliberate omission of the labour party”, Damilare.
Arbiterz reported that the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are currently in a tight battle for the gubernatorial seat.
It was observed that Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had uploaded about 97 percent of the 4,519 polling units’ results on its Results Viewing (IReV) portal.
The results indicated that Asue Ighodalo of the PDP and his APC counterpart, Senator Monday Okpebholo, are in a tight race.
According to the results on INEC’s IReV portal, while the PDP candidate is leading in the Edo South Senatorial District, the APC candidate leads in the Edo North Senatorial District.
