Youth leader clubbed to death in Edo, Collation officer arrested in Ondo

A Youth leader of the All Progressives Congress was on Saturday clubbed to death and his body set ablaze by thugs of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in Ikpoba
Okha Local Government Area of Edo State.
The Youth leader, Igie Osayande, met his untimely death when thugs led by one Osamede Edorodion, invaded Ward 9, Units 9, 10 and 11 in Obagienevbosa Community, off Sapele Road, in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area.
According to the APC Agent in Ward Unit 11, Mr Sunny Osagiede, trouble started when the said Osamede Edorodion, who according to him, is not from the community stormed the area with thugs demanding to be accredited long after accreditation had closed and voting had commenced.
According to Osagiede, “Edoordion’s efforts to get accreditation were rebuffed by the Presiding Officer who told him that voting had already commenced. He was then prevailed upon by the policeman on duty at the unit to leave the area.”
Osagiede said the trouble escalated when the said Edorodion received a call later from the PDP and SDP agents in the ward that the PDP was losing. “He returned to the ward after the calls with his boys and scattered the ballot boxes and tore the ballot papers into shreds.
“In an attempt to resist them, the APC youth leade, Igie Osagiede, was attacked by the thugs and clubbed to death. His body was also set ablaze. My Mercedes Benz 190 was damaged and the Youth leader’s Mercedes Benz ML 350 4Matic was set ablaze.”
He said the body of the deceased youth leader has been deposited at a morgue.

Collation officer arrested in Ondo

Reports from the wards across Ondo state indicated that the Peoples Democratic Party PDP may have won in 10 out of the 18 council areas of the state in the last Saturday general elections.
Although collations are still ongoing and some results are yet to arrive the state but findings showed that the results are close.
INEC is however yet to release the results with the state REC Olusegun Agbaje asking journalists to exercise patience until all the results are out.
Collation is ongoing at St Peters Primary school as at the time of filling in this report.
 The APC defeated the ruling PDP in the four local governments in Akoko, Owo, Ifedore, Akure South and Akure North.
The ruling PDP according to wards results compiled showed it won in Ondo West, Ondo East, Ose, Idanre, Ilaje, Ese-Odo, Irele, Odigbo, Ile-oluji/Okeigbo, and Okitipupa.
Meanwhile, a Collation Officer has been arrested by the police for allegedly tampering with election result sheets that was submitted to him after the voting.
The State REC Olusegyn Agbaje said the man had been taken to the police headquarters for interrogation over an alleged mutilation of collation forms
Agbaje pointed out that the allegation is under investigation by the police.
Speaking on the delay in the result, the REC assured the people of the state that the results would soon be sorted out.
Agbaje said the collation process would not be manipulated adding that” no local government has completed its compilation.