INEC begins compiling presidential results in Imo amid protests
INEC on Sunday evening began collecting presidential election results from all 27 local government areas in the state.
The snack began amid a peaceful protest by members of the Labor Party and the Ohaneze Youth Council, who alleged a compromise in the outcome of the National Assembly elections conducted in the senatorial zone of Ohaneze. 'Orlu.
State Collation Officer Charles Esimone, accompanied by INEC Resident Election Commissioner (REC), Sylvia Agu, had declared the presidential results collation open at around 6:30 p.m.
Mr. Esimone, who is the Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe Awka University, is committed to ensuring a transparent exercise.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that at the time of reporting, nine local government areas have so far been rounded up and announced by the various snack officers before the break begins at 10:10 p.m.< /p>
The local government areas included the local government areas of Isiala Mbano, Isu, Nwangele, Ideato Sud, Ideato Nord, Nkwerre, Orsu, Owerri Nord and Ikeduru.
However, shortly before the start of the exercise, the National Deputy Chairman of the South East Labor Party, Innocent Okeke, submitted a letter of protest to the INEC.
Mr. Okeke told reporters in an interview that the protest letter was against "the anomaly we witnessed during the elections".
"We have received complaints that no elections were held in many locations, but results were generated and uploaded.
"We have come to demonstrate to let the world know that we as the Labor Party want to end the old order and enshrine a new order of leadership and government in Nigeria," Okeke said.
Also speaking, the Labor Party (LP) candidate for the House of Representatives for the federal constituency of Orlu, Orsu and Oru East, Jeff Ojineka, said that the elections were only held in three polling stations in Oru East.
“In Oru East, the basis of what happened was the non-absence of the vehicles that transported the material to the polling stations.
“They delayed until about noon before they started posting papers in the voting booths, but those papers never appeared in any of the Oru East voting units only later to hear that the results were in. downloading," he said. .
He said elections were only held at three polling stations in Omuma: polling stations 008, 010 and 012.
He further claimed that in Orsu local government, as voters waited at designated polling stations for documents from the local government headquarters, the results were allegedly uploaded in documents.
The candidate claimed that those who voted were transported from Owerri to the area.
He also alleged that in Orlu, elections were only held in three neighborhoods.
"We came back today thinking that INEC was running the elections for Sunday in Orlu, but we were told there were no guidelines on the conduct of the elections.
"People were ready to vote. We learned later that results from there had (sic) been generated, and that's what they are gathering," he said. declared.
Similarly, the national president of the Ohaneze Youth Council, Igboayaka Igboayaka, claimed that "the tactical delay in the transmission of electoral materials to the various voting units was a ploy to sabotage the election".< /p>
Mr. Igboayaka, who read his protest letter, alleged that threats of violence had been used to stop elections in parts of the Orlu area. (NAN)
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INEC on Sunday evening began collecting presidential election results from all 27 local government areas in the state.
The snack began amid a peaceful protest by members of the Labor Party and the Ohaneze Youth Council, who alleged a compromise in the outcome of the National Assembly elections conducted in the senatorial zone of Ohaneze. 'Orlu.
State Collation Officer Charles Esimone, accompanied by INEC Resident Election Commissioner (REC), Sylvia Agu, had declared the presidential results collation open at around 6:30 p.m.
Mr. Esimone, who is the Vice Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe Awka University, is committed to ensuring a transparent exercise.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that at the time of reporting, nine local government areas have so far been rounded up and announced by the various snack officers before the break begins at 10:10 p.m.< /p>
The local government areas included the local government areas of Isiala Mbano, Isu, Nwangele, Ideato Sud, Ideato Nord, Nkwerre, Orsu, Owerri Nord and Ikeduru.
However, shortly before the start of the exercise, the National Deputy Chairman of the South East Labor Party, Innocent Okeke, submitted a letter of protest to the INEC.
Mr. Okeke told reporters in an interview that the protest letter was against "the anomaly we witnessed during the elections".
"We have received complaints that no elections were held in many locations, but results were generated and uploaded.
"We have come to demonstrate to let the world know that we as the Labor Party want to end the old order and enshrine a new order of leadership and government in Nigeria," Okeke said.
Also speaking, the Labor Party (LP) candidate for the House of Representatives for the federal constituency of Orlu, Orsu and Oru East, Jeff Ojineka, said that the elections were only held in three polling stations in Oru East.
“In Oru East, the basis of what happened was the non-absence of the vehicles that transported the material to the polling stations.
“They delayed until about noon before they started posting papers in the voting booths, but those papers never appeared in any of the Oru East voting units only later to hear that the results were in. downloading," he said. .
He said elections were only held at three polling stations in Omuma: polling stations 008, 010 and 012.
He further claimed that in Orsu local government, as voters waited at designated polling stations for documents from the local government headquarters, the results were allegedly uploaded in documents.
The candidate claimed that those who voted were transported from Owerri to the area.
He also alleged that in Orlu, elections were only held in three neighborhoods.
"We came back today thinking that INEC was running the elections for Sunday in Orlu, but we were told there were no guidelines on the conduct of the elections.
"People were ready to vote. We learned later that results from there had (sic) been generated, and that's what they are gathering," he said. declared.
Similarly, the national president of the Ohaneze Youth Council, Igboayaka Igboayaka, claimed that "the tactical delay in the transmission of electoral materials to the various voting units was a ploy to sabotage the election".< /p>
Mr. Igboayaka, who read his protest letter, alleged that threats of violence had been used to stop elections in parts of the Orlu area. (NAN)
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