Parties protest at INEC in Ondo

Four political parties in Ondo State including the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), African Democratic Congress (ADC), African Action Congress (AAC) and ( ANPR) have protested at INEC office in the state capital calling for the cancellation of last Saturday’s House of Assembly election in Ondo East and Ondo West local government areas.

The political parties at a press conference in Akure, shortly after leaving INEC office, said there were cases of intimidation, bribing of voters, violence and other atrocities that marred the whole exercise.

The protesters, including the 65-year-old father of 26-yearold Ebenezer Adetokunbo, who was declared missing since the election day, marched to the Alagbaka, Akure headquarters of INEC.

Led by a PDP stalwart in Ondo Kingdom, Chief Segun Adegoke, the former majority leader of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Hon. Dayo Akinsoyinu of Ondo West II, the protesters said the electorate were denied opportunity to choose who should represent them in the assembly.

Addressing journalists, Adegoke alleged that the plan of all the ugly incidences that transpired on the election day was hatched to save the APC and the governor from another defeat.

Reacting to the action of the protesters, the APC in a statement by the Publicity Secretary, Alex Kalejaye, said the allegation was fraudulent, baseless and unfounded.

He said the claim was incongruous with the anticorruption stance of the APCled government.