CEOAFRICA gathered that the Edo state Governor, Adams Oshiomole expressed his anger and disappointment over the role played by police officer for alledgedly aiding election malpractices in the just concluded Esan West Local Government Area.

While speaking the at the swearing-in of the Council Chairman, Mr. Sam Oboh, the Governor alleged the police of aiding in ballot box snatching, supervising electoral fraud and intimidating voters during the election.

According to source, he said “As a Nigerian, I am embarrassed that the police are involved in carrying electoral materials, arresting EDSIEC returning officers and coercing them into a police station and converting it into a collation centre supervised by policemen imported from Abuja and Lagos to subvert the will of the people of Esan North-East’, the police have become electoral officials’’.

Oshiomhole said the law establishing the electoral commission was clear, noting that nowhere was it stated the police post was an electoral office, saying “Police officers were involved in converting a police post to an electoral centre. It is an embarrassment. No one will live forever but our reputation will live after us.

While speaking too, the new Council Chairman, Mr. Oboh said forces of darkness can only suppress light for a short time and assured that the Council administration would work assiduously to develop the local government area.