Drama as Dino Melaye champions rejection of Ekiti State result

Dino Melaye, former chairman of the Senate Committee on Federal Capital Territory has championed the rejection of Ekiti State result.

Dino caused a stir at the National collation center when he rejected the Presidential election results on the ground of over-voting.

Furthermore, he had already begun the drama even before the beginning of the collation when he observed that the figures of the results announced by INEC for Ekiti State do not correlate.

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

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

In his observation, Dino Melaye said after calculation done by the PDP, there was a discrepancy of an increase of 887 in the total number of figures from Ekiti State.

Additionally, agents of the Action Alliance, Kenneth Udeze, and Labour Party, Umar Farouk agreed with the observation made by Melaye.

However 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.

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