Kogi Guber: PDP won in the Day, APC won in the Night - INEC

Parochialism is the best response to elections in Nigeria. Is it not pathetic for someone to abandon his means of livelihood; closing his shop the whole day as a businessman, staying away from work for civil and other public servants etc. to for ordinary display of social right and at the end it is useless?

We know that election is a game of interest, but the present administration is making the interest appear too porous. Except you are APC any contestant should consider himself a looser before the election. The president and his party have rounded Nigeria up. They are the court; they are the senators, representatives, army, police and even the composites of agencies that check crime. Several instances and events prove these.

In Nigeria, soldiers conduct civic elections; in Nigeria, the president chooses who becomes the senate president and speaker of house of representative before he is elected; in Nigeria, when APC is announced the winner, it is no rigging, but otherwise when another party wins; in Nigeria, ordinary online comment on the secret deal of APC warrants abduction by DSS for internet crime and many other; in Nigeria, APC governors use government vehicles to snatch ballot boxes.

These are the appointed legislative leaders, not explicitly elected. There names were sent a day prior to the elections in both houses. This is Nigeria

The result of the just concluded Kogi gubernatorial election is a clear indication of the primal determination of the ruling party to prove its supremacy. A situation where PDP won the election in the day, as announced by INEC, the same body turned around to announce APC the winner in the night. Commentaries from reporters will show everyone how fake the Buhari led APC government is.

A court had earlier declared the election conducted in the state as null and void while ordering the INEC to conduct a new election for the office. 

Dino Melaye, winner of the previous election, lost in the latest one, describing the results as “magic”.

Senator Melaye, during a press conference in Abuja, had earlier accused Smart Adeyemi and Governor Yahaya Bello of using violence, intimidation and inducement to frustrate the electorate in areas where he was popular.

He said, “Three people were shot and two died; four people were killed in Lokoja; seven were killed in the eastern part of the state; this is the record we have so far, apart from those who sustained gunshot wounds."

Melaye further alleged that the results of Iyara, Adeyemi’s hometown, were written while mayhem was unleashed on his hometown of Aiyetoro-Gbede, which claimed the life of his nephew, Olajuwon. 

He added, “We are waiting to see what INEC will do. 

"But I reject in totality these fictitious results. 

"I, Dino Melaye, won that election in the afternoon and the APC won it at night.”

Now, guess the situation. The commission in a statement said, "INEC met on November 21, 2019 and fixed November 30, 2019 for the conduct of supplementary and re-run elections for Kogi West Senatorial District and Ajaokuta Federal Constituency respectively."