 The chairman of the State Labor Party, Comrade Kelly O'Balloy, has described the just concluded local government election in the state as a rape on democracy as he claimed that the entire exercise and process was militarized and full of violence. O'Balloy made this known while briefing journalists at the party's secretariat in Benin City, the state capital, where he accused the state government of using thugs to hijack and disrupt the exercise in favour of candidates of the people's Democratic Party PDP, while noting that there was no voting across the polling units in the state. It's essentially to review the exercise of the local government election that happened on the 2nd Saturday, September 2023. We are to simply tell the press that the results of that exercise, the election of Saturday, is hereby rejected by the Labor Party. This is bringing to view the totality of the maladministration of the election, a known presence of electoral officers in several locations of state where elections were to take place, no supply of material to those locations, and even short supply of materials and all the lot of other irregularities that mark the entire exercise. Labor Party considered that in such situation it's solely clear and normal by us to reject it. It is no longer news that PDP, led by Governor Baseki, premeditated everything that happened during the election. We are more surprised in the sense that today the SIEC, those state electoral commission have ruled out results from that election that never happened in several places.