In a letter addressed to the office Chairman of the INEC in Abuja and made available to journalists in Benin on Sunday by the state chairman of the PDP, Dr Tony Aziegbemi, the ruling party alleged that the votes announced so far had been inflated to favour the APC.

The letter 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, alleged that results from some units in three local governments – Akoko Edo, Egor and Estako West Local Government Areas, 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.

” In Akoko Edo LGA, a simple collation of all the votes recorded in the polling unit results uploaded on the IREV shows that the APC obtained 25,010 votes while 34,847 votes were recorded in the EC8C declared by the LGA Returning Officer. For the PDP, the number of votes from the results uploaded on the IREV is 18,620, but 15,865 were returned on the EC8C declared by the LGA Returning Officer.

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