By Ehichioya Stephen Odion
The Edo Labour party, LP, has allegedly accused the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for using thugs to cart away materials meant for the Ovia North East Local Government.
This was disclosed today in a press statement signed by the Publicity Secretary of the party, Comrade Sam Uroupa and made available to Journalists in Benin City.
He said the election Materials meant to be distributed by EDSIEC was forcefully taking away at gun point in Okada, Ovia North East LGA.
He however, said that Materials arrived Okada at about 11:00PM on Friday 1st September 2023.
According him, "Eyewitness account has it that PDP thugs numbering over fifty were stationed at the entrance of the Secretariat where the materials were taking to, adding that they started shouting and shooting sporadically to scare away all LP members. "we don't want Labour Party here, its PDP we are working for".
The party also alleged that the vehicles that was parked beside the hoodlums were all from Edo State Government House, suspected to have conveyed them there.
"As we speak, both sensitive and non sensitive materials are still in their custody. As a Party we consider this as EDSIEC connivance with the PDP led government to hijack the process, if not why would they have to deliberately delay the distribution of materials till late in the night?
"EDSIEC should not make any attempt to announce any result already written in Government House because we are reliably informed that they used delay in the distribution of materials till night to enable the Government House plan the hijacking of the process.
"In Ovia South West it is the same thing, PDP thugs came with sporadic shooting and cart away the voting materials going to Ofunama ward, Inikorogha ward, Udo, Siloko and several other wards. In Oredo ward 7, the voters were chased away at Garrick as there were no materials brought to the place. As we speak there is no election in the affected areas.
The situation is not different in many other places. The entire exercise is been hijacked as there is no voting taking place in all the pooling units across the State. Edo Labour Party rejects the out
Come in today's election"
In reaction to the allegations made by the Labour Party that election materials meant for Ovia North East local government were carted away by PDP thugs, the chairman of EDSIEC, Justice James Oyomire, rtd. said that the commission has not received any report of such in any local government in the state.
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