Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday stormed the state headquarters of the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), accusing the electoral body of sabotaging democratic process by not announcing the results of Saturday election held in ward C of Ojodu LCDA.
The protesters, who are supporters of the PDP councillorship candidate in Ward Hom. Fatuyi Olarenwaju Samson, stormed LASIEC office in their hundreds with different placards and a protest letter to kick against alleged attempt by the electoral body to subvert the will of the people by holding onto the results.
They alleged that the released result so far in the polling units in ward C showed clearly that the PDP candidates was leading with more than 200 votes, before the process was stopped abruptly and the election materials taken to LASIEC office.
In an interaction with our TheNewsGuru.com the group ‘ISOKAN OMO ILU’ a youth group of Oke Ira Community, stated that they are out to protest the alleged injustice, distortion of results and obvious rigging by an agent of the All Progressive Congress one Mr Wale Ajala, in connivance with the electoral body, to change the outcome of the election which they claimed the PDP candidate was ahead before the collation stops
According to him, “It is disheartening to know that people without voters card were allowed to vote, all you need to do is mention Ajala name and ballot paper will be given to vote in favour of APC.
“This happened at polling booth 033 Adeshina where less than 150 voters came out to vote and the result declared for that polling booth was APC138 to PDP93.
“At polling booth 054 the APC councillorship Mr Gbenga Opebi was there sharing money to voters until he was reported to the police. While at polling booth 034 Irepo Junction where less than 100 voters came out to vote, APC through the Lasiec declared APC to have 120 votes, and the PDP 20 the residents of that area protested the result.
“As if that is not enough, the result of two(2) polling booths from Ward B and eight(8) from Ward D was brought down to Ward C to be counted against me. These are the areas that are totally outside of my ward, “he lamented.
An official of LASIEC received the letter on behalf of the chairman and promised their grouse will be looked into.