•Police: Measures affect all parties in the election•APC, PDP trade allegations over plot to rig pollGOVERNORS and other very important personalities who have converged on Benin ahead of today’s governorship election in Edo State will not be allowed the luxury of moving about during voting.
Secondus, at a press conference in Abuja, alleged clampdown on PDP governors by security agents in Benin ahead of the elections. It added: “Inasmuch as the APC governors are given liberty to stay in Benin City, our governors will not allow themselves to be harassed or stampeded to leave the state.Policemen lay siege to Wike’s lodge in Benin, Rivers PDP chair alleges
“Recall that Governor Wike was appointed Chairman of the PDP National Campaign Council for the Edo governorship election. This is the same position Governor Ganduje of Kano State occupies for his party, the APC. Rivers State Information Commissioner Paulinus Nsirim said the people of Rivers State feared for the life of the governor in Benin City.
They claimed that operatives were also deployed to pin down other political gladiators to prevent them from moving around during voting hours. The APC governors who were to join other party stakeholders for the Ado-Ekiti rally on the last day of campaigning were physically stopped from entering the state.
APC chieftains, including Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who succeeded in making the trip to Ekiti through Akure airport, were denied the opportunity to fly back and were compelled to return by road. The rumour was that Shaibu had been put under house arrest by the DSS over alleged thumb-printed ballot papers and arms and ammunition found in his house at his Jattu hometown in Etsako West Local Government Area in Edo North Senatorial District.
“President Muhammadu Buhari has kicked against rigging the election in Edo State, promising to congratulate whoever emerges as the winner. But Comrade Oshiomhole and Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu , who felt betrayed by the President’s statement, decided to use the back door to arrest Edo deputy governor in the name of illegal possession of arms. It is a lie from the pit of hell.
He said: “Shaibu is suffering from nervousness and panic, because campaigns have ended and he knows that Edo residents will reject him and Obaseki on September 19.