Nigerian Politician, Jimoh Olawole, rejected victory in an election, saying it was rigged in his favour in 2013

Nigerian Politician, Jimoh Olawole rejected victory in an election, saying it was rigged in his favour in 2013. (Read More Here).

He was contesting for a Councillorship election in Kwara State.

While addressing journalists, the state secretary of the party, Yemi Afolayan, noted that the man who claimed to be a member of PDP and claimed not to have won the councillorship election, defected two years ago to Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and served as an agent of Alliance for Progressive Change in the last rerun election in Offa.

The PDP on realizing his defection substituted his name as councillorship candidate with that of Kamarudeen Olaleken for Shawo south west, now wondering how he is now a member of the PDP.

Leaders of the party, displayed the documents and letters to the State Independent Commission, which served as a notification of change in name of the candidate.

They have also called on the public to disregard his claim of being a member of the party. The party insisted that legal action will be taken against the alleged impostor, Afolabi Jimoh Olawole to serve as deterrent to others.

Meanwhile, the Kwara state governor, Abdulfattah Ahmed has sworn-in the new chairman of Offa local government, describing his emergence as manifestation of peoples wish to join mainstream politics in the state.

KWASIEC had announced that PDP won the ward. But Olawale said APC polled 1,213 to defeat PDP, which he said had only 568 votes.

Also, a presiding officer in the election, Mr. Oyetunji Akeem who came with copies of the results in Shawo Central to a press conference organized by chieftains of All Progressive Congress, APC, in Offa on Wednesday debunked PDP claims of victory in the ward.

He noted that there were eight voting units in the ward and that the PDP candidate did not win even a single polling unit going by the counting he witnessed himself.

Hon. Hassan Oyeleke, a member of the Kwara State House of Assembly who spoke at the media briefing, said the 86 polling centres KWASIEC recorded 500 votes each would have accounted for 43,000 votes as against the 57,000 that the Commission earlier announced.

Prince Saheed Popoola, the APC Chairmanship candidate in the election who was also the immediate past chairman blamed KWASIEC and its chairman, Dr. Uthman Ajidagba for their attempt to manipulate the election.