Dino Melaye causes a commotion at the collating center by requesting that the Ekiti vote be canceled.

A former federal lawmaker, Dino Melaye, has challenged the result of the Ekiti State presidential election and wants it cancelled immediately.

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Presenting his observation at the commencement of the collation of results at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, on Monday, Melaye, who is the agent of the Peoples Democratic Party, raised observations on alleged over-voting. NewsReport gathered.

The Kogi State-born politician argued that the results as presented by the Ekiti State Presidential Election Collation Officer, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, were incorrect and should be cancelled since the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has not declared the presidential results.

Dino Melaye said, “I have an observation from the result from Ekiti State.” I worked on the results as presented yesterday and discovered we have 987 registered voters, 647 registered voters, and 301, 558 accredited voters. And since we have 301, 558 accredited voters in the results presented yesterday, APC has 201, 494. If you subtract that 301 from 558, you have 164, 000.

“Of these 164,000, the PDP received 89,554 votes, and when you subtract that from the remaining 164,000 votes, you get 10,510, and it was also reported yesterday that Labour received 11,397 votes when the total number left is 10,510, leaving an over figure of 887.”

“Apart from this 887 surplus, we’ve not calculated the results of the political parties because we recall that yesterday you told us that ADC scored 1087. So we will see that from that presentation yesterday, the figures do not add up. “The number of votes outnumbers the accredited votes, and we know exactly what the law says concerning that.”

Dino Melaye then moved for the result from Ekiti to be cancelled.