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The All Progressive Congress (APC) has come out once more to say that there is enough evidence to warrant the total cancellation of the November 16 governorship election rather than introduce the ‘supplementary election’ which Jega announced for November 30th.
In a statement issued by the party through the Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, ‘’Our party has provided incontrovertible and more than substantial evidence to show that what took place on November 16th is a parody of election.”
The reasons the party gave as justifying the cancellation of the Anambra poll in its entirety include:
1. INEC failed to comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act during the November 16th election. This was evidenced by the admission of the INEC chairman that a top official compromised the election. The officer of the commission, it was alleged, compromised the election in Idemili North LGA with its over 173,000 registered voters. APC considers those figures substantial enough to warrant fresh elections. Idemili North, says APC, is Senator Chris Ngige’s stronghold, and he had once won over 80% of the voters there in the 2011 senatorial elections.
2. INEC’s use of Nnamdi Azikiwe University students as presiding officers and the university staff as Supervising Presiding Officers was in violation of all principles, especially since the APGA candidate’s running mate was (until his nomination) a professor at Nnamdi Azikiwe University.
3. Voting materials meant for known APC strongholds were willfully and deliberately taken to wrong wards in a bid to cause confusion and chaos, so that by the time the mix up was corrected (if they were even corrected at all), many voters had already left the voting centers in frustration.
4. Many voters’ registers in APC strongholds were tampered with, and the names of registered voters were removed.
5. In many polling units, result sheets were unavailable, and this occurred in known APC strongholds.
6. The collation of the voting results was not done at the polling units or wards.
7. Even though
APC had submitted the names and photographs of more than 6,500 party agents, they received only 4,604 agent tags. Furthermore, the agent tags were only delivered to APA by 3pm on Friday, 15th November – as compared to APGA, where they received their agent tags for over 6,500 candidates three days to the election.
8. Senator Chris Ngige had written to the INEC that Professor Chukwuemeka Onukogu be exempted from conducting the November elections, because of his bias against and animosity towards him, that is, Ngige. Ngige said that Onukogu was the Resident Electoral Commission during the 2011 Anambra elections and his bias had shown during the time.
APC says that if the above reasons are not convincing enough to the INEC, then it stands to reason that Jega is either very naïve about the shameless rigging that had occurred under his nose on November 16th, or he has chosen to pitch camp with the ‘election marauders’ who are playing to a larger script controlled by the presidency/PDP.
In a statement issued by the party through the Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, ‘’Our party has provided incontrovertible and more than substantial evidence to show that what took place on November 16th is a parody of election.”
The reasons the party gave as justifying the cancellation of the Anambra poll in its entirety include:
1. INEC failed to comply with the provisions of the Electoral Act during the November 16th election. This was evidenced by the admission of the INEC chairman that a top official compromised the election. The officer of the commission, it was alleged, compromised the election in Idemili North LGA with its over 173,000 registered voters. APC considers those figures substantial enough to warrant fresh elections. Idemili North, says APC, is Senator Chris Ngige’s stronghold, and he had once won over 80% of the voters there in the 2011 senatorial elections.
2. INEC’s use of Nnamdi Azikiwe University students as presiding officers and the university staff as Supervising Presiding Officers was in violation of all principles, especially since the APGA candidate’s running mate was (until his nomination) a professor at Nnamdi Azikiwe University.
3. Voting materials meant for known APC strongholds were willfully and deliberately taken to wrong wards in a bid to cause confusion and chaos, so that by the time the mix up was corrected (if they were even corrected at all), many voters had already left the voting centers in frustration.
4. Many voters’ registers in APC strongholds were tampered with, and the names of registered voters were removed.
5. In many polling units, result sheets were unavailable, and this occurred in known APC strongholds.
6. The collation of the voting results was not done at the polling units or wards.
7. Even though
APC had submitted the names and photographs of more than 6,500 party agents, they received only 4,604 agent tags. Furthermore, the agent tags were only delivered to APA by 3pm on Friday, 15th November – as compared to APGA, where they received their agent tags for over 6,500 candidates three days to the election.
8. Senator Chris Ngige had written to the INEC that Professor Chukwuemeka Onukogu be exempted from conducting the November elections, because of his bias against and animosity towards him, that is, Ngige. Ngige said that Onukogu was the Resident Electoral Commission during the 2011 Anambra elections and his bias had shown during the time.
APC says that if the above reasons are not convincing enough to the INEC, then it stands to reason that Jega is either very naïve about the shameless rigging that had occurred under his nose on November 16th, or he has chosen to pitch camp with the ‘election marauders’ who are playing to a larger script controlled by the presidency/PDP.