Edo Election: PDP alleges alteration of results, demands re-collation

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP in Edo State has rejected the results of the state governorship election announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The All Progressives Congress (APC) won in 10 out of the 18 local government areas of the state, while the PDP won in six local governments in the results announced so far by the commission.
In a letter by its state chairman, Dr. Tony Aziegbemi, addressed to the office of the INEC Chairman in Abuja and sighted by journalists in Benin on Sunday, the ruling party alleged that the votes announced so far had been inflated to favour the APC.
The letter was titled, ”Re: Protest against manufactured vote entries and unjust inflation of APC votes and deduction of PDP votes in the collation of results of Edo State Governorship Election held on 21 September 2024.”
The chairman, in the letter, disputed results from some units in three local governments – Akoko Edo, Egor and Estako West, calling on the electoral commission to re-collate and recompute the results.
The letter read, “It has come to our attention that the Electoral Officers appointed by the INEC for the conduct of the Edo State Governorship election made entries that are totally different from the actual results as uploaded on the INEC IREV, thereby unjustly inflating votes in favour of the APC and deducting the votes of the PDP.”
The PDP asked the INEC to immediately re-collate and recompute the actual results for the various polling units in the ”above highlighted local government areas in compliance with the INEC guidelines and regulations, which mandate that votes from various units and wards be properly collated.”