2019 Polls: Research reveals 'systemic rigging plot' in Edo

Urhoghide, Ogbeide-Ihama, Igbinedion-controlled LGAs possess dubious figures of collected PVCs in 2 years'group tasks INEC, DSS, Police on fraudulent spike in trendAs political parties conclude electioneering campaigns for the February 23, general elections across the country, a research body, Edo Socio-economic Research Group, has raised an alarm over what it fears may be a 'systemic rigging plot' by the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State.In a statement issued in Benin City, the Edo State capital on Thursday, the group said that its latest research on the distribution of Permanent Voters' Cards (PVCs) across the state, revealed that 'the Permanent Voters' Cards (PVCs) collected in two (2) local governments of Edo State (Oredo and Ovia North East) in the last two years (2016 to 2018) exceeded the total number of PVCs collected in those LGAs in sixteen years, from 1999 to 2016.'According to the group's findings, the number of PVCs collected in Oredo Local Government Area from 1999 to 2016 was 151,010 (one hundred and fifty one thousand, ten).Continue reading 2019 Polls: Research reveals 'systemic rigging plot' in Edo at Vanguard News Nigeria.
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