The Returning Officer for the Kogi State governorship
election, Prof Johnson Urama, on Sunday threatened to use his statutory powers
to remove the Secretary of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, from the collation
centre.
Urama issued the warning after the SDP official questioned
results from Okene Local Government Area (LGA), which had just been read out.
“I thought it was one party agent per [party]… There is
somebody representing your party here,” the Returning Officer said.
The party official insisted that although his colleague had
spoken, he had “observed something that he probably has not seen”.
He described the figures read out as “a doctored result”,
alleging that the results had been made known to the party “since yesterday”.
The SDP official further alleged that the results were on
the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IReV).
“I want to understand why the result was changed now. Why
should the result be changed now? My party has been manipulated up until this
point in time,” he said.
However, Urama maintained that the SDP official was not
allowed to speak and was at risk of being thrown out.
“Secretary of SDP, you know I have the powers to remove
anybody trying to disrupt this. Don’t push me to use those powers. You have an
agent here and he has spoken,” the returning officer said.
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