We Were Forced To Rig In Favour Of APC – INEC Official

We Were Forced To Rig In Favour Of APC – INEC Official

April 13, 201515



An electoral officer of Oru East in Imo State, Mrs. Emmanuel Okpara has confessed that INEC staff were forced to write results in favour of the APC by some leaders in the area.

Okpara, who is the Public Relations Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), made the confession while presenting the results which showed the APC as having 11,189 and the PDP 1878 in her area, Daily Times reports.

The governorship election Imo State was on Sunday night declared inconclusive due to the cancellation of the results from some wards and polling units, totaling 144, 715 votes.

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A breakdown of the votes showed that incumbent Governor Rochas Okorocha of the All Progressives Congress (APC) had 385,671 votes, while Prince Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 305, 142 and Emmanuel Iheanacho of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) scored 28,238.

There were reports of election violence in Imo state. One of such involved an accident which claimed the lives of three people as police chased ballot box snatchers.

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Photos from the scene of the accident that killed a female INEC staffl in Benue

The lady, whose picture you will see after the cut lost her life on Saturday on her way to her place of assignment.riding on a bike with another Ad-hoc staff, a male who luckily survived the accident but n critical condition as he receives treatment in a hospital.

An eye witness said that the neck of the bike they were traveling with pulled while on high speed. Blessing Agidi Ode is a 200l student of the University of Agriculture, Makurdi.
RIP dear! 

Blessing Agidi

                       

                                                      The Guy in the hospital



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POLICE PREVENT VOTERS FROM GETTING TO POLLING UNITS IN KADUNA

Voters who registered to cast their votes in places away from their residences, had been barred by the police from proceeding to their polling units in some parts of Kaduna State.

Some of the voters told the News Agency of Nigeria on phone that security personnel prevented them from proceeding to their polling centres.

Barry Joseph who lives in Kudan said he was stopped from going to his polling unit in Kujama to cast his vote.

Helen John who lives in Television area of Kaduna, also complained that she was prevented from going to cast her vote at her unit in Kakuri by security agents stationed at Command Junction in Kaduna.

John James, who lives at Goningora, said he had registered at Angwan Boro, but was also prevented from getting to the place by security personnel at the command junction.

The police spokesperson in the state, Zubairu Abubakar, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the action of the security personnel, was in error.

He promised that the police would sort out the problem.

Meanwhile, election officials arrived Vice President Namadi Sambo’s polling unit at about 11 a.m.; three hours behind the scheduled commencement time for accreditation.

Security and several aides of the Vice President, as well as voters who arrived the unity earlier, had to wait patiently for the arrival of the officials at Ward 5, Kabala Doki in Kaduna.

(NAN)

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Breaking news: Bomb blast at Polling Unit in Enugu (photo)

A bomb went off at the Women Training Center in Enugu this morning March 28th. The state police Commissioner confirmed the incident and said anti-bomb squad were immediately invited to the scene and were able to successfully detonate a second explosive found in the premises. Above is the vehicle that carried the explosive device 

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