By Simon Ebegbulem

APC candidate, Godwin Obaseki, yesterday raised an alarm over an alleged plot to attack his campaign convoy.

Obaseki

Obaseki who raised the alarm while speaking to journalists, said intelligence report at his disposal revealed the area where the planned attack would be carried out, adding, however, that he had informed security agents of the alleged plot.

The APC candidate who vowed that no amount of threat or violence would give the PDP victory, asserted that “from opinion polls and all the feelers we are getting across the state, we will win the election by 75 percent. Particularly in Edo South, things have improved quite significantly from the last poll that we received. Edo Central has been very interesting. The amount of defection from the PDP has essentially crumbled the opposition party in the central.

“And even in their strongholds, we are beginning to see them very jittery and in Edo North apart from few units in Akoko-Edo and one unit in Owan East, it is essentially locked down for us. So from what we can see today, barring any unforeseen circumstances, barring violence that will scare people from the poll and bar any attempt by the opposition party to cause disruptions in some highly populated voting units so that the results from those units will be inconclusive, we believe that we are very comfortable”.

He said he believed in the integrity of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which he said had been the bastion of democracy in the last 17 years.