CENTUS NWEZE Reporting
Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP at the Saturday’s election in Ogun State, Ladi Adebutu, has said that he was rigged out of the election by ballot snatching and what he called ‘advance mathematics’.
Adebutu, while reacting to the outcome of the Saturday’s election where Dapo Abiodun of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was declared winner, vowed to reclaim his mandate from Abidoun.
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has declared Governor Abiodun the winner of the keenly contested election having scored 276, 298, to defeat Adebutu who scored 262, 383 voted.
Adebutu revealed that his team has discovered over 10, 000 illegal votes in one of the local governments, adding that Sagamu local government was also rigged after results were earlier burnt.
“So, what happened? We won everywhere. It got so bad that they could not claim anywhere was our stronghold because everywhere was our stronghold.
“They had to snatch ballot; they snatch ballot everywhere, not only in Remo, not only in Ijebu, not only in central, they had to snatch ballot everywhere in Ogun State.
“After they snatched ballot everywhere, it was not enough, they now started advance mathematic. My brother from Iperu (Governor Abiodun) started flying around with helicopter.
“He flew to Iju and they started adding the figures, they added 4, 000 votes there, so hurriedly that a kindergarten would see the 4, 000. They left Iju and started going everywhere.
“In one local government, we have discovered illegal votes of 10, 000. Without doing forensic at all, we have seen 10, 000.
“I will not mention figures again, but let me mention something that will keep them awake. In Sagamu, Ogijo, they said the place got burnt, after the place got burnt, the miracle has now happened and the thing that got burnt has been resurrected, they now found 4, 000 votes inside it. That is how stupid are.”
Adebutu further alleged that about 400 bikes were used by hoodlums who dressed in security attires to snatch boxes and manipulate the process, alleging further that security operatives provided back up for the alleged criminality.
“30 – 40 bikes with young men with guns, roaming the street, attacking polling units, the impunity was so much. Some of these people looked like DSS, because the gun they carried looked like that of DSS, so we suppose they are DSS, because the cloth they wore is similar to that of DSS.”
According to him, the Saturday’s election has only be forced to extra time, saying, “but we are determined, we shall serve this state, this extra time, we shall play.”