The All Progressives Congress APC has accused the Peoples Democratic
Party PDP of churning out fake results for Saturday’s Edo state
Governorship election, urging the public to ignore same.
The APC
in a statement by the spokesman of its campaign council “laughed at the
speculative results by the PDP where they churned out fake figures in
the pretence that it has already secured majority votes”.
According
to the statement, PDP’s “electoral vaudeville” will not secure them the
elections, noting that the figures and images being bandied in the
media are falsities that should be regarded without any seriousness.
He
said, “Before the election, we warned that PDP has prepared doctored
election results and fake figures to make it appear that they will win
the elections. They have even graduated to hosting a fake website for
INEC where they release their concocted results.
“I want to urge
all APC supporters in Edo to remain calm as we had the majority of the
votes in the state cast in our favour. A falling tree makes a louder
crack than an erect tree.
“PDP has been churning out false
figures. They released an edited picture, for instance, of Comrade
Oshiomhole voting for PDP. They released news that PDP won in our
candidate’s polling unit. These are all falsehood. We will not stoop to
their level.”
He added that the false information being
propagated in the media would not change the actual results in the
ballot boxes and that they were all attempts by the PDP to “secure false
evidence for the election tribunal, which they still plan to head to
after they have lost”.
“Just like their candidate, Mr Obaseki,
PDP is trying to push a narrative that they have secured the majority
votes and that if APC is declared the winner, then something funny has
happened. The only funny thing that has happened is that PDP thugs tried
to chase APC polling agents away from the spots of the elections.
They
managed to beat up APC election officials and in Ovia North East, they
managed to kill one person, seriously maim another, and injure several
others. Despite this attempt to prevent our people from voting, we have
still been able to secure the majority of the votes,” he said.
Mayaki,
therefore, expressed confidence that when the final results are
revealed the truth would come out and the mandate to move Edo State
forward would be handed to APC, “as the state had collectively rejected
the governor”.
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