The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State chapter on Sunday said intimidation and harassment of voters by political thugs working for the All Progressives Congress (APC) was majorly responsible for the party’s poor showing in last Saturday’s local government elections in the state.

While the official results are yet to be announced by the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), results released so far showed the APC winning by a landslide in the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs).

Speaking in an interview with Daily Independent, Dr Adegbola Dominic, the state chairman of PDP said in a particular local government area, APC thugs allegedly prevented the LASIEC presiding officer from announcing the full results after realizing the PDP candidate was leading after 18 out of 20 ballot boxes have been counted.

He said the party has notified Justice Ayotunde Phillips, LASIEC chairman about the development and are expecting the right thing to be done as regards the council.

He also said many people who wanted to vote couldn’t do so as they have been disenfranchised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) which failed to provide them with their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs).

According to him, many APC members went to the polling centres with passport photo and party identity cards and were allowed to vote.

He said “Two factors are responsible for the poor results the PDP got. The number one factor is the thuggery and aggression by APC. They have bribed thugs and miscreants to ensure that the PDP doesn’t win in their areas. So, wherever these thugs realise that PDP is having an upper hand in some areas, they unleash mayhem on the voters or snatch the ballot boxes”.

“For example in Yaba LCDA, they have 20 ballot boxes, the presiding officer had counted 18 of them and PDP was leading by 200 votes. The remaining two ballot boxes to be counted, thugs just appeared from nowhere with guns and prevented the presiding officer from counting the remaining two ballot boxes”.

“The police were there but they were helpless. The people in the area now insisted that the presiding officer must announce the result which is the law. The law says that the presiding officer must announce the winner at the ward collating centre.

“However, the man refused to announced the results. The police had to take the two uncounted ballot boxes to the police station and the presiding officer then announced that the election was inconclusive”.

“We had to call Justice Phillips, the LASIEC chairman to complain and she noted it and hopefully, we believed we will get our deserved victory in that council.

“Another factor is that the people have been shortchanged with the provision of PVC. So, many people who wanted to vote have no PVCs. INEC prevented a lot of people from collecting their PVCs. People were waiting at INEC offices to collect their PVCs but INEC made it so difficult for them to do so”.

“Right now, a large number of populace have been disenfranchised because they don’t have voters cards. Hopefully, I hope the e-registration will correct this anomaly. The APC members went to the voting centres and voted with passports, party identity cards. It is like a lawless society”.
https://independent.ng/lagos-lg-polls-apc-members-voted-with-passport-photo-party-id-cards-pdp/

What do you expect from evil people in an evil party? I am not surprise at all ooo.

The drug addict from Iragbiji unleashed his owomidas to cause problems like he did during the EndSars riot. Its a huge shame that Lagosians allowed an Osun indigene to dictate how their affairs are being run, spits.

We also saw a video on internet yesterday when some thug snatch some ballots boxes in oshodi area and one woman that is just thumbprint for APC. but PDP itself needs to be more serious in Lagos before 2023.

Jostoman:
We also saw a video on internet yesterday when some thug snatch some ballots boxes in oshodi area and one INEC official that is just thumbprint for APC. but PDP itself needs to be more serious in Lagos before 2023.

inec?

Jostoman:
We also saw a video on internet yesterday when some thug snatch some ballots boxes in oshodi area and one INEC official that is just thumbprint for APC. but PDP itself needs to be more serious in Lagos before 2023.

Ok we are sorry for you pdp? Same thing Okowa & pdp did in Delta State, Pot calling kettle black?

In Ramoni ward in surulere 11 also known as itire ikate Lcda the pdp councilor aspirant sesan lawrence the principal was not allowed to vote because they never brought his ballot box to his area so that he can vote. As of 230 pm it was still at laseic office and the election ended at 3pm. The ballot boxes where wrongly put in different places to confuse people in areas they felt were his strongholds. To be honest no intimidation by thugs because he is liked by all, thats why apc had to use laseic to rob him. His apc counterpart voted and was able to thump print extra ballot papers in an election with low turn outs. Lagos apc is finished you can see the people are tired if they cant ginger votes in an election run by them. If this was an inec election bye bye to apc.