The PDP members stormed the INEC office in their hundreds, led by the party's governorship candidate, Hon. Ladi Adebutu, to present a petition calling for a rerun of the governorship election in the polling places where the votes were cancelled.
Supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) surrounded the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Tuesday to protest the outcomes of the governorship election last Saturday.
The PDP members stormed the INEC office in their hundreds, led by the party's governorship candidate, Hon. Ladi Adebutu, to present a petition calling for a rerun of the governorship election in the polling places where the votes were cancelled.
The PDP protesters chanted anti-INEC choruses and demanded that the election be ruled invalid. They were armed with placards that read, among other things, "INEC should save our democracy," "INEC betrayed the people of Ogun," "Electoral fraud will not stand," "INEC should respect people's wish," and "INEC should stop being biased."
However, heavily armed security personnel, including members of the military, police, and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, prevented the protesters from entering INEC premises (NSCDC).
The protesters refused to be intimidated by the gunshots, so the operatives fired sporadically into the air to scatter them.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State of ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) had been declared the winner of the governorship election in the state by INEC.
The victory meant that Abiodun was reelected for a second term of four years.
The commission had declared Abiodun as the winner of the governorship election on Sunday.