Mr Babajide Bakare, the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) House of Assembly Candidate for Kosofe Constituency II in Saturday’s House of Assembly elections in Lagos, has rejected the results declared by INEC.
Bakare, in a statement on Thursday in Lagos, alleged that the election was characterised by intimidation, violence, thuggery, ethnic profiling and result manipulation, which made the process fail democratic tenets.
He called out the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) that the elections failed all tests of decency in a democratic setting.
“It (the election) was full scale war declared on opposition by desperate politicians who deployed thugs across the six major wards in Kosofe Constituency II.
“The political thugs were seen going around all the polling units molesting, beating and threatening anyone considered to be political enemies on the queues,” Bakare said.
He said that so many intending voters left the polling units in fear, as thugs threatened them at Magodo Phase 2, Alapere, Owode and other areas in the constituency.
Bakare alleged that the collated results in the constituency were also manipulated and did not reflect vote count at the polling unit level.
“We hereby using this medium to reject the chaos in the election and the crooked figures cooked up in Kosofe Constituency II on Saturday.
“We also reject the refusal of INEC to amend the issues of the non-inclusion of our party’s name on the ballot paper.
“We reject the use of a vague logo that is not too apparent to our supporters on the ballot.
“All of these and more are being reviewed by our party and legal team, and the appropriate action will be taken within the timeline provided by the electoral act,” Bakare said.
(NEC declared the incumbent, APC’s Obafemi Saheed, as winner of Kosofe Constituency II seat in the Lagos State House of Assembly, in Saturday’s election.
