BREAKING: Edo governorship election 2024 declared manipulated, see details

Legit.ng journalist, Ridwan Adeola Yusuf, has over 9 years of experience covering politics and elections in Nigeria.

Benin City, Edo state - A prominent civil society organisation (CSO), Yiaga Africa, on Monday, September 23, said the results of the Edo governorship election 2024 were manipulated.

Legit.ng reports that Yiaga Africa is one of the accredited observers of the off-cycle governorship election in Edo state on Saturday, September 21.

In a statement, Yiaga Africa said it deployed the process and results verification for transparency (PRVT) methodology for the election, involving 300 stationary and 25 roving observers, covering a representative sample of polling units (PUs) across all 18 local government areas (LGAs). In the end, the organisation said it found alterations.

Yiaga Africa's statement partly reads:

“Based on reports from 287 of 300 (96%) sampled polling units, Yiaga Africa’s statistical analysis shows inconsistencies in the official results announced by INEC."

It added:

“These inconsistencies with Yiaga Africa’s PRVT estimates indicate that the results were altered at the level of collation.“The disparities between the official results released by INEC and Yiaga Africa’s PRVT estimates indicate manipulation of results during the collation process.“Yiaga Africa strongly condemns the actions of some biased INEC officials who altered figures during collation including the actions of some security officials who interfered with the collation process."

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Source: Legit.ng