The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disowned its Ad hoc staff, Innocent Ibeawuchi, who was the Returning Officer of last Saturday’s National Assembly election in Imo State and has confirmed Governor Rochas Okorocha as the senator-elect for Imo West District.
Ibeabuchi,
after declaring Okorocha winner of the election, at the Orlu INEC
Collation Centre, alleged shortly in another chat with the media in
Owerri, the state capital, that he was made to declare the governor
under duress.
But INEC, speaking through its Public Relations Officer, Mrs. Emmanuella Okwara, maintained that Ibeawuchi is on his own.
Okwara
further pointed out that what transpired between Ibeabuchi and the
governor is entirely his business, and advised him to make his report
officially to the commission; if his claims were true.
She said: “What transpired between them is his business, but the only person we have cleared so far is governor Okorocha.”
Meanwhile,
INEC has declared the Imo North senatorial district and House of
Representatives elections inconclusive, following alleged irregularities
that marred the election.
Elsewhere, the Returning Officer for
Anambra South senatorial district, Prof. Meshach N. Umenweke has
declared the election inconclusive.
Prof. Umenweke said he
announced the result he had at the moment and declared the candidate of
the Young Peoples Party (YPP), Dr. Ifeanyi Ubah, winner due to the
volatile situation at the collation centre, which was a great threat to
his life.
Source:- Sunnewsonline
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