The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said it would protest the outcome of the Edo State Governorship Election which is being skewed in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Sen Monday Okpebholo.

The Director General of the Asue/Ogie Campaign Council, Hon Matthew Iduoriyekemwen stated this early Sunday morning while protesting the just concluded guber election.

BEYOND AFRICA gathered that
while journalists and some party agents were waiting at the Conference Hall in the Independent National Electoral Commission’s office to announce the results, protesters about 20 stormed the entrance gate of INEC.

Iduoriyekemwen said the PDP was cruising to victory. Still, the information available to them showed that there were plans to mutilate the final results that would reflect the wishes of the voters.

He also alleged that the leader of the APC in the state, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and reinstated deputy governor of the state Philip Shaibu were thumb-printing ballot papers to close the gap with which they were leading.

“We will not accept this, we will contest it,” he said this at about 2:27 am when He led the protesters to the venue.

They have since been dispersed by the police shortly after speaking to journalists through the barricade