Some election observers have faulted the conduct of last Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State, saying it was fraught with irregularities.
Therefore, the Coalition of Accredited Election Observers Group has vowed to expose the prevalent malpractice that married the exercise.
Dr Onwubuya Abraham Breakforth, the Coalition National Coordinator, who said the group deployed 367 election observers across all the polling units and electoral wards, said in a statement, added that the coalition observed various malpractices.
The statement read: “The collation observes unbelievable logistics challenges where electoral materials don’t arrive at all, purportedly hacked, while some Wards receive late arrivals, while in some Wards, materials arrive incomplete with shortage of most sensitive materials.
“The coalition observed terrible malpractices and manipulation of results at some LGA collation centers in about 104 polling across twelve (12,) LGAs of Edo State.
“The coalition has on records in cameras, video clips of unbelievable compromise of the electoral process at some Wards, LGAs and the State Collation centre.
“The coalition is currently compiling all the observed evidence in figures and data before, during and after the election.”