In a related development, aggrieved members of the Edo State chapter of Labour Party (LP), on Saturday, pulled out of the Local Government Council election, over alleged irregularities in the election.

The members of the party in Oredo and Ikpoba Okha Local Government Areas protested to the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Edo State Council to register their displeasures over the conduct of the elections.

They alleged that the party was intimidated and harassed by the local vigilante group at the various voting centres.

They, however, called on the federal government to henceforth allow INEC to be the sole body saddled with the responsibility of conducting all local government elections in the country to avoid it being hijacked by the state government.