The Lagos state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of rigging the results of the  local government elections which held in the state on the weekend of July 22.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, the PDP accused the APC of allegedly using thugs to snatch ballot boxes.

The statement reads. “The APC government in Lagos have realised that Lagosians don’t want them again, that was why they used thugs and guns to snatch ballot boxes.

“APC is the ruling party; if not for the fact that they saw that they were getting voted out, what was the need for the use of thugs to snatch ballot boxes?

“Most ballot boxes were not counted at the unit, even those that were counted, the ballot boxes were taken to collation centres where no other party agents were allowed to enter except APC agents.

“That is where all the results were doctored and votes were allocated to political parties for the returning officers to declare. This is how APC rigged every other party out of the election.”

However, in a swift reaction to the claims, the state publicity secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe, described the PDP in the state as a ‘confused’ group of people.

He said the claims show the height of political irresponsibility.

“Lagos PDP should just keep quiet and go home to find out where the rains started beating them. The struggle for the position of the National Chairman of the party by the two factions of the party dealt a devastating blow to Lagos PDP which split along Markafi and Sherrif political divides.

“The leadership of APC Lagos traversed the political landscape of Lagos in the course of our grassroots and door-to-door campaigns just to check whether the opposition is doing anything in terms of campaigns but we did not see PDP/LP (Labour Party) in action,” Igbokwe said.