The ruling All Progressives Congress on Saturday warned Nigerians to ignore pockets of Edo governorship election figures making the round on social media, saying they are not a reflection of the current results being collated by the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja.
In the statement, Morka alleged that the fake figures are being peddled around online to create panic among the people.
The APC spokesman added that the electoral umpire is currently collating all the figures at the ward level.
He said, “The attention of the All Progressives Congress has been drawn to some reports circulating in sections of social media by certain political parties peddling bogus figures of vote tallies in the ongoing Edo State Gubernatorial Election. We urge the Edo state electorate and the general public to disregard these bogus and highly speculative reports.
“Our great party wishes to clarify that collation at the Ward level is still ongoing and has yet to be concluded. Certainly, Local Government level collation has yet to begin in most of the LGAs in the state let alone conclude. Consistent with the Electoral Act, INEC is the sole authorized body empowered to collate results at the Ward, Local Government, and State levels, and to officially declare the result of the Election.
“Our great Party is comfortably in an early lead, however, as a responsible Party, we will not attempt to preempt INEC’s conclusion of the election process and official declaration of final results. We urge members of the public to disregard this attempted misrepresentation and await INEC’s final verdict on the election.”
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