The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Chris Ngige and that of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, (PDP) Mr Tony Nwoye, have asked their members not to participate in the rescheduled governorship election in Obosi ward, in Idemili North Local Government Area (LGA).
The APC candidate is not only demanding a re-run in Idemili North and Idemili South LGAs, he says fixing a rerun on Sunday will not allow full participation of voters.
Senator Ngige also vowed to take legal action if results are announced without a re-run in Idemili North and South on a date convenient for voters in the area seen as his party’s stronghold.
“A petition has been prepared and addressed to the National Chariman. We cataloged all our claims and it was put into the box of the chairman on Saturday. We made it clear tat the election is already compromised. We ask the commission to conduct the elections in the 306 polling units instead of slicing off Obosi for today (Sunday),” Ngige explained.
The PDP candidate called for total cancellation in the state election, contradicting a statement by the party earlier.
“There were multiple thumb printings. Security agents colluded with Peter Obi and INEC to chase away voters, intimidate people at the collation centres, to write results, falsify results and do many thumb printing. Some people did not vote. There were many malpractices and we call for the cancelation of the election,” Nwoye stated.
The party had issued a statement through its spokesman, Mr. Olisa Metuh, expressing its satisfaction with the election process.
But both Ngige and Nwoye are accusing the electoral commission of collaborating with the All Progressives Grand Alliance to manipulate the process by deliberately delaying the arrival of election materials and removing some sensitive materials like result sheets from the ones sent to their areas of strongholds.
INEC is expected to brief journalists on the election later on Sunday.
