Candidates who lost Saturday’s governorship election and their supporters on Tuesday protested the outcome of the poll and vowed to challenge the results in court.
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There were protests by the Peoples Democratic Party supporters in Ogun and Nasarawa states just as the All Progressives Congress in Kano State gave the Independent National Electoral Commission seven days to declare the governorship election in the state inconclusive.
In the results of the governorship election declared so far by INEC, the APC has won 15 states, the PDP won eight, while the New Nigeria Peoples Party emerged victorious in Kano State.
A protest by the PDP members in Ogun State turned violent when an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps fired a gunshot into the air to disperse protesters, who stormed the INEC office in Abeokuta, the state capital.
Scores of the PDP members led by the party’s candidate, Oladipupo Adebutu, had marched to the INEC office, where they rejected the result of the election, which Adebutu lost to the state Governor, Dapo Abiodun, who is the APC candidate.
Pandemonium however broke out when security operatives prevented the party members from entering the premises. During the confusion, an NSCDC official fired a gunshot in an attempt to disperse the protesters.
The angry protesters pursued and pelted him with stones as he ran away when they angrily advanced towards him.
Some security personnel including officials of the Department of State Services were injured during the melee.
The protesters, who were singing anti-INEC songs, were bearing placards with inscriptions such as “INEC should save our democracy”, “INEC betrayed the people of Ogun”, “Electoral fraud will not stand”, INEC should respect people’s wish”, “INEC should stop being biased” and “Ogun election was inconclusive, INEC correct yourself”, among others.
But, the protesters were denied access to the INEC office by heavily armed security operatives.
Speaking at the entrance of the office, Adebutu said he was at the commission to submit a petition.
He insisted that the protesters would not leave the place until officials of the electoral commission attended to them.
Adebutu said the party had submitted several protest letters to the commission demanding the review of the results of Saturday’s election and re-run in polling units, where elections were either cancelled or disrupted.
He said that it was regrettable that security agencies were being used against the wish of the people, warning that the development could degenerate into another #Endsars protest.
Adebutu said, “We are here to protest, but unfortunately we have been confronted by security men, shooting sporadically into the air, in the hope that they would disperse us, but we are resolute, we are going to stay here until we are addressed by officials of INEC.
“We contend that the measures by which other states have been treated and they are allowed to have rerun should apply to Ogun State.’’
LP protests in Abia, tasks INEC
Labour Party members yesterday staged a protest at the INEC office in Abia, where they demanded the commission to declare their candidate, Alex Otti, as the winner of the governorship election.
This is as Otti, at a press briefing, urged the commission to resist pressure to overturn his victory in the election.
He said results so far collated in 16 of the 17 local government areas of the state clearly showed that he won the election.
“Having secured about 172,000 votes against PDP’s 71,000 votes in the 16 LGAs, there is no way the ruling party could torpedo our victory using falsified results from the last LGA, which has less than 30,000 registered voters,” Otti said.
He urged the INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, and the commission’s management to ensure that whatever decision they reached after their ongoing review of results from Obingwa LGA reflected the will of the people.
Ohanaeze youth ask INEC to declare Abia, Enugu results
The youth wing of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, has called on INEC to announce the results of the governorship elections held in Abia and Enugu states to ease the tension in the two states.
It contended that INEC didn’t have any justifiable reason to hesitate in announcing the results since the people had already decided on who to lead them and clear winners of the polls had emerged based on the results collated so far.
The National Publicity Secretary of the body, Chika Art Adiele, in a statement on Tuesday, said the decision to suspend the collation of results in both states appeared to be aimed at nothing short of the outright subversion of the will of the majority of voters in the states.
He said failure to announce the results within 24 hours would be viewed as an obvious sign of further disintegrating Ndi Ndigbo.
“As is the case of Enugu State, the elections in Nkanu East and Nsukka had already been collated by the returning officers and should have been summed up immediately, followed by a declaration of the results and the returned candidate.
“Obingwa local government is an interesting twist. INEC seems to be willing to subvert and tactically bypass her own rules in the case of Obingwa, which saddled the local government EOs to “compulsorily” announce results as collated from the polling units, to ward level, and finally to the local government for onward dispatch to Umuahia, the state capital.
“Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide Youth Wing, therefore, demands the immediate announcement of the Obingwa LGA result as collated by the different layers of electoral units and subsequently declare the winner.”
Women protest in Nasarawa
Women believed to be members of the different opposition political parties, including the PDP, protested in Nasarawa State on Tuesday over alleged manipulation of the governorship election.
The PDP state women leader, Mrs Stella Oboshi, who spoke on behalf of the women’s group during the protest in Lafia, the state capital, said INEC contradicted itself when it announced the results of the governorship election but declared that of the house of assembly inconclusive.
“We don’t care about Governor Abdullahi Sule because Governor Sule is a candidate just like any other political party, and David Ombugadu, the governorship candidate of PDP, is also a candidate.
“Our protest is against the INEC, not Abdullahi Sule, that was declared winner of the governorship election.
“Ours is that, let justice prevail. We don’t have a problem with the incumbent governor; our worry is why the house of assembly was declared inconclusive. INEC should come out and explain to the entire world,” she said.
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