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Supporters of the All Progressives Congress (CPC) yesterday blocked the entrance to the premises of the Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWSIEC) in Ilorin, the state capital.
KWSIEC, which conducted the election, had declared the chairmanship and councillorship candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the winners of the poll, the PDP Candidate Mr. Afolabi Olawole, had rejected his victory.
According to Osun Defenders, the blockage of the KWSIEC headquarters lasted for about three hours. The Muslims among them observed their Jumaat in front of the commission’s office on Fate Road, opposite the Federal Secretariat in the metropolis.
The protest was led by Hon. Hassan Oyeleke, Hon.Tope Olayoonu; the party chairmanship candidate at the poll, Saheed Popoola, and former caretaker chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Sola Iji.
The protesters, who brandished brooms, the logo of their party, condemned the KWSIEC for alleged perpetration of fraud with the result it announced and expressed their insistence on the release of the ‘authentic’ result.
Iji and Popoola told reporters that the protest at the head office of the KWSIEC would continue until the electoral body released the result of the election as demanded.
“We are demanding for the declaration of the official and authentic result, and we will not stop this protest until they gave us our result,” Iji said.