It has been revealed through a video that the last local government held in Esan North East of Edo State was nothing but a hoax. This was revealed in a video that was recently uploaded on Youtube by Eddy Uwa.
Few people identify on the video are: Sam Oboh, Barr. Silver Ebare, others who seem to have been very vital in the success of the rigging. Though the video audio was not too clear, but at the end, the committee discussed and resolved on a uniform story to be told in case they were arrested by the police, question by the judge or interviewed by the press after rigging the election.
The Commissioner, Barr. Silver Ebare, who came last commended their efforts on the individual roles they played, and also assured everyone who played part in the success of the rigging that they will all be taken care of.
In the video, Mr. Sam Oboh, the chairman of Esan North East, was seen saying that Kogi and Ebonyi was rigged by PDP and there was no way they could have allowed the PDPs to win in their own territory. He said ” I am happy, we are all happy that they (PDP and others) are lamenting, we are crying in Delta, we are crying in Kogi, we are crying in Ebonyi, we are crying in Kwara, should we cry in our own state again?”
The declaration of the winner, according to the people in the video showed that, it was a complete lie as the body that announced and declared the winner does not have the power to do so.
Meanwhile, the PDP, Edo State Chapter has accused Edo Stat Independent Electoral Commission, EDSIEC, of rigging the chairmanship election of Esan North-East local government, which the party claimed it won.
In a statement titled ‘How PDP won the chairmanship and councillorship election in Esan North-East Local Government’, the State PDP chairman, Chief Dan Orbih called on Nigerians to prevail on Governor Adams Oshiomhole and EDSIEC chairman to declare the correct results.
Chief Orbih said the PDP won the councillorship elections in all the eleven wards, while the respective councilors-elects received their certificates of return.
He, however, noted that: “The Local Government Returning Officer absconded from Uromi without announcing the collated chairmanship result only for EDSIEC chairman, Mr Solomon Ogoh to announce a doctored result in Benin in favour of All Progressive Congress, APC, candidate while collation was still going on in Uromi.”
The PDP outlined the ward to ward results which summed up to APC having 6248votes, while PDP had 11332votes.
Orbih said: “We challenge the APC to contradict these figures.”
The election was held recently. A previous election had been inconclusive.
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