Some members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) protested outside the collation centre in Benin over alleged attempts to manipulate the outcome of the Edo governorship election.
Police used teargas canisters on the protesters around 2:45am on Sunday and chased them off the premises of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Matthew Iduoriyekenwe, a PDP chieftain and director-general of the Ighodalo/Ogie campaign council, said some INEC officials conducted the election without the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS).
“In my local government, people were thumb-printing by bypassing BVAS. Why would INEC give us BVAS as means to accredit voters and INEC is bypassing it? If they know there was no need for an election, they didn’t need to waste our time,” he said.
Iduoriyekenwe also alleged that some chieftains of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and a serving senator from Edo, are trying to manipulate the election for Monday Okpebholo, governorship…