Smart Adeyemi, a candidate for governor of Kogi State and a member of the All Progressives Congress, or APC, has characterized the outcome of the state’s primary election as a “rape of democracy.”
Adeyemi also said on Monday on Arise Television that the Independent National Electoral Commission, or INEC, will be visited by God if they agree that the APC primaries election took place.
“About eight of us, except probably the man that was anointed, none of us have the privilege to vote,” Adeyemi stated. In essence, no votes were cast anywhere. What they did was to compose the outcome.
“I have heard of rigging; if there was voting and we alleged rigging OK, we will say were rigged out, but in this instance, we were at our polling unit at our ward secretariat, there was no material, nobody. What they did was to invite the chairmen of the local government areas, including those of them who were said to have been suspended, were recall three days before the election and they were given a marching order, collect the material that from the panel that came from
“While we were all the while remaining at our different wards, we competitors took a gander at one another.
11 o’clock, 12 o’clock, and 1 o’clock nobody. At two o’clock, we were still there when we began to hear the election results.
It’s unfathomable.
This is another peculiarity that should not stand since, supposing that Kogi State pulls off this, different Lead representatives will duplicate this.
There wasn’t a vote. Unless they want God to descend upon them, ask my colleague, the security service, and the INEC personnel. Voting was not allowed.
Keep in mind that the APC’s flagbearer in the Kogi State governorship election was Ahmed Usman Ododo, a former Auditor General for Local Governments.
The direct primary election that took place on Friday was won by Ododo, who received a total of 78,704 votes and defeated six other candidates for the governorship by a wide margin.
Barr, the distant runner-up, was defeated by him. Mohammed Ozigi Salami received 1,506 votes, while Adeyemi received just 311 votes.