Edo Election: Your report is filled with methodological flaws – APC to Yiaga Africa

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Edo Election: Your report is filled with methodological flaws – APC to Yiaga Africa

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has faulted Yiaga Africa’s report on the Edo governorship election, which said the result of the poll failed integrity test.

APC described the report as a travesty, replete with methodological flaws and politicized observations.

In a statement issued by the National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, on Tuesday, the APC urged Yiaga Africa “to refrain from enlisting itself in the season’s annals of infamy”.

The APC said the people of Edo State were loud and clear in their choice of Senator Monday Okpebholo as the next governor to lead the state into a new era of peace, unity, people-centered development and prosperity for all.

The party noted that alleging that results were manipulated without hard facts and figures but based on some statistical guess work was a clear disservice to the electoral process.

The statement said: “In its jostle for headline attention, Yiaga Africa, one of the many civil society organizations accredited by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is overreaching its election observer mission to second-guess INEC on the result of last Saturday’s Edo state gubernatorial election.

“INEC is the sole statutory authority for the conduct and declaration of results of the election. Yiaga Africa is not, and must desist from constituting itself into, a parallel agency for the declaration of election result.

“Alleging that results were manipulated without hard facts and figures but based on some statistical guess work is a clear disservice to the electoral process.

“Yiaga Africa’s report is a travesty, replete with methodological flaws, politicized observations, inconsistencies, inaccuracies, and called its credibility into question.”