Governorship candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Kogi State, Murtala Ajaka, has said the governorship election held on Saturday’s was characterised by irregularities.
He however said he does not have plans to challenge the outcome of the election in court if he loses as it will be a waste of time.
Speaking on Channels TV’s ‘The 2023 Verdict: Off-Cycle Elections,’ Ajaka had claimed that the election was rigged with the support of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
He said: “In the whole of the five local governments in central (Senatorial District), the whole of the five local governments in central, there was no election anywhere. They wrote results. Result sheets were given to Yahaya Bello.
“In Okene local government, they turned out over 130,000 votes, haba! And INEC accepted that result and what is on the BVAS is less than 30,000.
“With all due respect to the person of the INEC chairman, if they don’t do a checklist and investigate their officials that went to Kogi State and allow this to stand, I doubt if there will be election in 2027.
“Because people will go into that election armed and I fear Somalia will be a child’s play.
“If we knew it would be the same old music, we would have played along with that old music by inflating the results from my area”.
INEC has officially declared candidate of the APC, usman Ododo as winner having polled 446, 237 votes to defeat Murtala Ajaka of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), who came second with 259,052 votes. Dino Melaye, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), scored 46,362 votes.
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