#EdoDecides2024: This election might be the worst in Nigeria’s history — Ighodalo

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Edo governorship election, Asue Ighodalo, has said that the ongoing gubernatorial election could be the worst in Nigeria’s history.

Ighodalo made this claim during a live press conference at the PDP Situation Room in Benin on Sunday.

He alleged that more than 20 polling units across the state were affected by various discrepancies.

According to him, PDP agents were denied access to the collation centre, adding that this election might go down as the worst in the country.

He said, “From our perspective, the way these elections are going, they’re probably going to be the worst elections in the history of this country.

“We have information for instance, where we have over 20 polling units where the accredited voters are less than the total votes which is not possible. We have over 20 polling units from the results that were announced yesterday where from their accredited voters, the total votes that they’ve now announced are more than the accredited voters. This process is unacceptable and then they’re trying to disenfranchise our collation agents.

“Like His Excellency (Umaru Fintiri who leads the party’s campaign organisation for the election) read, at every point, you find APC and their thugs supported by people dressed as security agents going to shoot at polling agents and disrupt processes.

“This is not acceptable in the 21st century. Definitely not in Nigeria. I think we’ve gone way past this.”

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