The New Nigeria Folks’s Occasion (NNPP) Home of Meeting Candidate for Kosofe Constituency II in final Saturday’s Home of Meeting election in Lagos, Babajide Bakare, has rejected the outcomes declared by the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC).
Bakare had in a press release on Thursday in Lagos alleged that the election was marred by intimidation, violence, thuggery, ethnic profiling, and consequence manipulation within the constituency.
He insisted that the election failed the integrity take a look at.
INEC on Tuesday declared the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Obafemi Saheed, because the winner of the Kosofe Constituency II seat within the Meeting.
The NNPP candidate mentioned: “It (the election) was full-scale struggle declared on the opposition by determined politicians who deployed thugs throughout the six main wards in Kosofe Constituency II.
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“The political thugs have been seen going round all of the polling models molesting, beating, and threatening anybody thought of to be political enemies within the queues.
“Many intending voters left the polling models in worry as thugs threatened them at Magodo Section 2, Alapere, Owode, and different areas within the constituency.”
Bakare alleged that the collated ends in the constituency have been additionally manipulated and didn’t mirror the vote depend on the polling unit degree.
“We hereby use this medium to reject the chaos within the election and the crooked figures cooked up in Kosofe Constituency II on Saturday.
“We additionally reject the refusal of INEC to amend the problems of the non-inclusion of our social gathering’s title on the poll paper.
“We reject the usage of a imprecise brand that’s not too obvious to our supporters on the poll.
“All of those and extra are being reviewed by our social gathering and authorized group, and the suitable motion will likely be taken inside the timeline supplied by the electoral act,” he added.
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