Edo 2024: Police, INEC Plan to provide cover, write fake results, and announce

The police in Benin City yesterday insisted that they must complete their mission to provide cover for some compromised INEC officials to write fake results and announce it even if the process is still in progress.

The police in an emergency meeting yesterday insisted that they must complete their mission even though they suffered a setback yesterday when the military interveined and disrupted some of their plans to provide cover for thugs to cart away with election materials.

In Oredo Local Government area, the second largest in Edo State, with nearly 400,000 registered voters, hoodlums had invaded the INEC office with the intention to compromise the materials for the LGA but were dislodged by the military.

Some of the hoodlums were arrested with firearms and taken away by soldiers.

A similar situation was also reported by the INEC national commissioner in an interview with Channels television to be taking place in Etsako West Local Government Area.

Following this disruption of their plan, the AIG in charge of Election Duty, who is also the AIG Zone 7 in the Federal Capital Territory, AIG Benneth Igweh, held a meeting with men of the police force in Benin City and was unequivocal in his declaration that "we are here on a mission and we must fulfil it."

He went further to ask his men, who did not have the stomach for the mission to indicate by raising up their hands and stepping aside.

During the meeting, they discussed how to provide cover for hoodlums to attack collation centres and replace actual results with fake ones.

He said the ultimate plan is to announce a fictitious election result in favour of the APC even though the process may still be ongoing and tell the other parties to go to court.

According to revelations from the meeting, they plan to carry out this act in connivance with the other security operatives invited by them to take part in the election process.