Governorship candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Kogi State, Murtala Ajaka, has alleged irregularities in Saturday’s election.
Ajaka said he won’t challenge the outcome of the poll in court if he loses as it will be a waste of time.
Speaking during a television programme yesterday, Ajaka had claimed that the election was rigged with the support of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
According to him, “In the whole of the five local government areas in central, the whole of the five local government areas in central, there was no election anywhere; they wrote the results. Result sheets were given to Yahaya Bello. In Okene local government area, they turned out over 130,000 votes; Haba! And INEC accepted that result and what is on the BVAS is less than 30,000. Na wa o…!
“With all due respect to the person of the INEC chairman, if they don’t do a checklist and investigate their officials that went to Kogi State and allow this to stand, I doubt if there will be election in 2027; because, people will go into that election armed, and I fear Somalia will be a child’s play. If we knew it would be the same old music, we would have played along with that old music, by inflating the results from my area”.
“When the Commission told us yesterday that they were looking into this case, we were hopeful; that is why everybody relaxed. Only for them now to collate these results. It is annoying. Three local governments are producing 230,000-something votes”, he lamented.
