Drama as PDP candidate rejects own victory, says APC won

In what many would describe as a show of true patriotism, Jimoh Olawole, a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, councillor candidate in Offa Local Government Area who was declared winner in the last Saturday’s council election in the state has rejected his own victory.

KWASIEC had announced that PDP won the ward. But Olawale said APC polled 1,213 to defeat PDP, which he said had only 568 votes.

Also, a presiding officer in the election, Mr. Oyetunji Akeem who came with copies of the results in Shawo Central to a press conference organized by chieftains of All Progressive Congress, APC, in Offa on Wednesday debunked PDP claims of victory in the ward.

He noted that there were eight voting units in the ward and that the PDP candidate did not win even a single polling unit going by the counting he witnessed himself.

Hon. Hassan Oyeleke, a member of the Kwara State House of Assembly who spoke at the media briefing, said the 86 polling centres KWASIEC recorded 500 votes each would have accounted for 43,000 votes as against the 57,000 that the Commission earlier announced.

Prince Saheed Popoola, the APC Chairmanship candidate in the election who was also the immediate past chairman blamed KWASIEC and its chairman, Dr. Uthman Ajidagba for their attempt to manipulate the election.

He further flayed the state electoral body for announcing the result in Ilorin and not Offa and why it had to be announced on the Kwara Radio which is against the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, laws.