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2023 Election: Ekiti Results Rejected by Opposition Parties Over Alleged Over-Voting

Former Senate Committee Chairman on the Federal Capital Territory, Dino Melaye, caused a stir at the National Collation Centre on Monday by ...

Chima Joseph Ugo
Chima Joseph Ugo - Editor-in-chief February 27, 2023
Updated March 10, 2023 at 2:43 PM
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2023 Election: Ekiti Results Rejected by Opposition Parties Over Alleged Over-Voting
Former Senate Committee Chairman on the Federal Capital Territory, Dino Melaye, caused a stir at the National Collation Centre on Monday by rejecting the presidential election result declared for Ekiti State, alleging over-voting. 

Melaye, who is also an agent of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), raised an observation that the figures of results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for Ekiti State do not correlate. 

INEC had declared Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, the winner for Ekiti State with 201,494 votes, defeating his closest rival, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku of the PDP, who scored 89, 554.

Peter Obi of the Labour Party polled 11,397 votes while Rabiu Kwankwaso of New Nigeria Peoples Party polled 264 votes; 1703 votes were cancelled due to bye-pass of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation Systems and over-voting. 

However, Melaye said after the calculation done by the PDP, there was a discrepancy of an increase of 887 in the total number of figures from Ekiti State. The agents of the Action Alliance, Kenneth Udeze and Labour Party, Umar Farouk, agreed with Melaye's observation.

Despite Melaye's observation, INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, insisted that the commission stood by the result declared by the collation officer of Ekiti State, Prof. Akeem Olawale Lasisi, who is the Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Health Sciences, Ila Orangun, Osun State. 

Yakubu stated that the total number of accredited voters in Ekiti State was 315,058. This figure was what was on the spreadsheet that was screened, on the actual result manual recorded by the scope, and signed by the PDP agent and agents of other political parties back in Ekiti State.

Melaye continued with his objections and almost stopped the collation of results in Kwara state. The agents of the PDP, Labour Party, and Action Alliance had rejected the results in Ekiti State, alleging over-voting.

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