The petitioner averred that all the scores and purported votes from Aboh Mbaise, Ahiazu Mbaise, Ehime Mbano and other 17 local government council areas of the states, were void and unlawful votes.
Giving
‘’facts’’ in support of the voiding of the election in the stated local
government areas, Senator Araraume said that INEC in preparation for
the election sourced electoral officers from University of Agriculture,
Umudike; that the said electoral officers were ‘’inexplicably’’ changed
hours to the election, and replaced them with a different set of
untrained electoral officers and ad-hoc staff.
He further
averred that the new, untrained electoral officers and ad-hoc staff,
most of who hail from Mbaise local government areas, were then appointed
and deployed within hours to the commencement of the governorship
election, stating that these untrained electoral staff did not subscribe
to the oath of neutrality.
The APGA candidate also averred in
his petition that there was massive hijacking and diversion of ballot
papers and other electoral material to places other than polling units
where several booklets of ballot papers were ‘’massively thumb printed’’
by agents of the PDP in favour of Ihedohia in the aforementioned local
government areas, coupled with ballot box snatching and stuffing with
ballot papers.
He said that the multiple thumb printed ballot
papers for Hon. Ihedioha were subsequently stuffed into the ballot boxes
and recorded in favour of the PDP and its candidate in the stated local
government areas.
The senator also averred that out of the 27 local government areas in the state, the purported winner of the election scored 25 percent of total votes cast in only 12 local government areas, thereby rendering his purported return invalid.
Source:- Leadershipng
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