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The All Progressives Congress (APC)
has warned that it will not accept the results of Saturday’s governorship
election in Anambra state if voting does not take place in all local
governments, especially in the party’s strongholds of Idemili North and South
as well as Akwa South.
In a statement issued in Lagos on
Saturday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the
party also condemned INEC for its apparently-contrived logistic nightmare that
has left thousands of voters unable to exercise their franchise, and demanded
the immediate removal of the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Anambra, Prof.
Chukwuemeka Onukogu.
APC said it was totally astonished
to learn that INEC has confirmed that materials meant for Idemili North Local
Government, which has 180,000 voters, have been hijacked, without saying
who hijacked the ballot papers and why, and without explaining why the
materials meant for APGA and PDP strongholds were not hijacked.
The party said equally astonishing
is the fact that the voter’s registers for Idemili South, the direct council of
the APC candidate, Dr. Chris Ngige, did not contain the names of voters in the
local government, despite the assurances by INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega.
Accreditation at Dunukofia Local
Government Area. Photo: Tony Edike
”Before the election, political
parties were given voters registers that largely contained the names of most
voters. However, about four days to the election, Prof Jega said at an
interactive stakeholders forum that there were problems with the registers,
which would be rectified before the election.
”However, when the
supposedly-corrected registers were brought back, most of the authentic names
in them have disappeared, without explanation,” it said.
APC said it also complained about
the fact that the Resident Electoral Commissioner for Anambra, Prof Onukogu,
was very partial and unprofessional when he conducted the 2011 election,
”In 2011, when Prof. Onukogu
conducted the general elections in the state, he was very partial. During the
Onitsha South 2 House of Assembly constituency and Idemili South House of
Assembly polls, he declared the results of both inconclusive, only for him to
announce the results at 12 midnight. After we challenged the results in court
and a rerun was ordered, we won both constituencies.
”We subsequently petitioned INEC and
the Commission assured us that the same person will not be allowed to conduct
subsequent election. Alas, he was left in place to do another damage to INEC as
an institution through his glaring incompetence and partiality, which have
seriously affected the credibility of this governorship election,” the party
said.
Vanguard
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