Edo election was rape of democracy says Gov. Fintiri

The governor of Adamawa state, Ahmadu Fintiri, on Sunday condemned the outcome of the Edo State governorship election saying Nigeria’s democracy has experienced yet another attack.

The governor who was speaking at a press conference held prior to the announcement of the final result, alongside Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo; and Asue Ighodalo, said he wept for Nigeria’s democracy, describing the exercise as shameful.

Gov. Fintiri, who was the chairman of the PDP campaign council for the Edo governorship election, said the poll was marred by “vote-buying, disruption of collation processes, and suspicious results”.

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At the briefing, the Adamawa governor reeled out collated results of some Edo LGAs, and was immediately criticised by politicians on the opposing side of the divide for purportedly “usurping the powers” of the electoral umpire, to which he responded that he “merely shared results from INEC’s Irev portal, as collated by INEC from the various Local Government Areas”.