Forensic Evidence Shows INEC Rigged Edo Guber Election
Goddy Egene As the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenges the result of the Edo State governorship election, in which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), declared the All Progressives candidate, Senator Monday Okpebholo as the winner, the Executive Director of TAP Initiative, Martins Obono, has alleged that INEC actively participated in rigging the election. INEC had declared Okpebholo the winner with 291,667 votes while Dr. Asue Ighodalo of the PDP was said to have come second with 247,274 votes. Civil society organisations (CSOs), which monitored the election, faulted the outcome, declaring that the results from several polling units were altered at collation centres. Also, Yiaga Africa, which deployed the Process and Results Verification for Transparency (PRVT) methodology for the election, involving 300 stationary and 25 roving observers, covering a representative sample of polling units ac...