Asue Ighodalo, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in last Saturday’s Edo election, has boasted that he will reclaim his ‘stolen mandate’ at the tribunal
Ighodalo stated this during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today, where he accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the police of colluding to rob him of his mandate.
He stated that many people were disenfranchised during the election, saying he had evidence of over voting.
Ighodalo said, “There was a collusion between the INEC and the police to suppress the will of the people of Edo State. People of Edo State purposely voted for us. We won the election clearly. It is painful because you have many young people who felt that they were disenfranchised in the past; they feel that their votes were not counted and they asked what kind of democracy we run.
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“I had been trying to encourage them that make sure your votes count but we have serious collusion by INEC and the APC working towards votes not counting.
“But this time around we will go through the judicial process and the vote will count. We are quite clear that with the evidence we have, we will show clearly that we won the election. And the mandate of the people will be upheld.”
However, Ighodalo said the PDP was not involved in vote buying during the election.
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