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Christopher Oji
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) House of Assembly candidate for Ibeju Lekki Constituency 1, Tari Oba-Oliver, has rejected the just concluded Lagos State House of Assembly rerun poll in his constituency.
He said he would contest the result at the elections petitions tribunal to challenge the victory of
Oba-Oliver said: “I reject the declaration of Mojeed Fatai as the winner of that election on the grounds that the supplementary poll held on Saturday, March 23, was marred by voters’ intimidation, vote-buying at polling stations and sponsorship of multiple voting by same voters. “There was even a skirmish involving an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) official at one of the polling stations who boldly told our party agents that they did not play their game well; and that the election was just a mere formality because the result of the election was already known.
“We have always been aware of the desperation of the APC over the years to hold on to power in Lagos State. But that desperation has never before been so openly displayed as it was on Saturday. The people of Ibeju Lekki constituency 1, came out to vote with the intention to echo the tiredness of Lagos people with the current dispensation under All Progressives Congress (APC). They came to do this honourably; they came with no intention to soil their hands; they came to vote the APC out. They would have succeeded on a level playing field. But, indeed, the good people of Ibeju Lekki, for the first time, witnessed broad daylight robbery of their mandate by the enemies of democracy.”
