KWARA: KWASIEC Upturns APC Victory, Says PDP Wins

The ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP has again put up its magic to upturn an obvious result of the LG rerun election held in Offa Local Government of Kwara State. Contrary to earlier result published where it was declared that the All Progressives Party won 11 out of the the 12 wards in the local government; report from Vanguard newspaper online has it that the KWASIEC Chairman has announced that PDP won the election.

Where the KWASIEC Chairman got hold of the result he announced is still a mystery, as it was widely announced that the KWASIEC returning officers who is suppose to announce the final result absconded.

According to Vanguard report, Mr AbdulWaheed Olanipekun of the the PDP has emerged Chairman of the Offa Local Government Council in a re-run election, conducted in the area on Saturday. The Chairman of the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWASICE), Dr Uthman Ajidagba, made the disclosure on Sunday in Offa, near Ilorin, while announcing the result of the elections.

He said that contestants on the platform of the PDP also emerged winners as councillors in all the 12 wards in the Local Government. Ajidagba said that Olanipekun polled 35,937 votes against the 20,161 votes, polled by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr Saheed Popoola.

However, the Protem Chairman of the APC in Kwara, Mr Shola Iji, said that the results declared by the commission were not the original results of the election. He made the claim while speaking on the outcome of the elections. “We are not accepting the result because it was not an honourable result of Saturday’s elections conducted in Offa. We know the original result and not the one that was falsified,” he said.