The All Progressives Congress has charged the electorate in Edo State to disregard election results in circulation as the Independent National Electoral Commission was still collating the results of Saturday’s governorship election in the state.
The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, gave the advice in a statement he issued on Saturday night in Abuja.
Morka said: “The attention of the APC 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 Gubernatorial Election.
“We urge the Edo electorate and the general public to disregard these bogus and highly speculative reports.
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“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 Local Government Areas in the state let alone concluded.”
The spokesman of the party explained that consistent with the Electoral Act, INEC was the sole authorised body empowered to collate results at Ward, Local Government and State levels, and to officially declare the election results.
Morka said the APC was comfortably in an early lead, but would not attempt to preempt INEC’s conclusion of the election process and official declaration of final results.
He urged members of the public to disregard attempted misrepresentation and await INEC’s final verdict on the election.