Swear by the Quran that Kogi Election was FREE & FAIR – Melaye challenges INEC chairman
Despite its earlier announcement of suspending the process to investigate irregularities in the affected areas, INEC proceeded to declare the final result and announced Usman Ododo of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner of the election.
In response to this development, Melaye expressed bewilderment, questioning why INEC declared a winner after committing to investigate the electoral irregularities reported in the identified wards.
“Remember yesterday, when INEC made a statement, they said there were reported discrepancies in five local governments and that they were investigating it. INEC said they were investigating it, and while they were investigating, they went ahead to declare those local governments while we were waiting for the report of their investigation.”
When asked whether he believes the INEC boss had a direct hand in his defeat, Melaye asserted that the incumbent Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, would not have had access to INEC’s result sheets if Yakubu had not collaborated with the Kogi State Government.
“How will Yahaya Bello have access to the original result sheets without Mahmood Yakubu’s cooperation? How will a youth corps member who is engaged on the day of election have ₦1m in her bag?” Melaye queried.
He further challenged the INEC Chairman to take an oath on the Quran to affirm that he did not receive reports about electoral irregularities in Kogi from the commission’s officials.
“Let Mahmood Yakubu swear by Holly Quran that there was no report by the field officers for cancellation in some LGAs in Kogi,” Melaye said.
The PDP candidate said he had obtained some evidence to prove that the Kogi governorship election was fraught with irregularities.
“You saw yesterday that a lot of corpers and agents were arrested with prefilled results sheets. I also have some results sheets; you’ll see how mutilated the result sheets are.”
“I have about 10 of such results, and there are more than 200 results, all mutilated like this,” the PDP candidate alleged.
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