Oshiomhole alleges plot by PDP to rig Edo guber poll

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has raised an alarm over alleged plans by the opposition party to manipulate July 14 governorship election in the state through the use of federal employees to conduct the election.
But the state PDP, however, dismissed the governor’s claim, describing it as spurious alarm.

This came as the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from making further use of Electronic Collapsible Transparent Ballot Boxes, ECTBB.
The governor who spoke at an interactive session with members of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA,  in the state at the Police Officers’ Mess, Benin City, argued that the pronouncement of the Director-General of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, to stop the use of Youth Corps members for the election would  only cause confusion in the state.
Oshiomhole who said the PDP at a meeting in Abuja protested the use of Youth Corps members for the conduct of the election because they were anticipating violence, said it was a reflection of what they have in mind.
He said: “They protested that they do not want Corps members to conduct the elections because they saw some youth corps members at the venue of our campaigns even when it was obvious that the rallies were held in schools and students were in session. They claimed the decision was due to the violence in the state. Where is the violence in the state?  They can bring the youth corps members from anywhere, from Sokoto, from Maiduguri, but we do not want federal employees. This election must be won or lost at the polling booth.”
Oshiomhole urged the NBA to prevail on the NYSC Director General not to allow anybody to manipulate them and if they allow federal civil servants to be used to conduct the election, they would  bring people that would manipulate the election.
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