The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday suspended the rerun and bye-elections in certain constituencies in the country following the outbreak of violence and other glaring irregularities that marred the exercise.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atigwe Simon as the winner of the rerun election for the Udenu/Igbo-Eze North Federal Constituency of Enugu State. INEC’s returning officer, Prof Nwachukwu J. Obiaku from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka declared the results of the controversial poll. SaharaReporters reported on Saturday that the election was characterised by missing result sheets, causing voters to insist that there would be no election without result sheets.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that the 'presiding officer' who was beaten to a pulp by angry voters in Enugu State during Saturday’s re-run election is not its employee. The 'presiding officer' was beaten up for allegedly arriving at a polling unit with a pre-filled result sheet. SaharaReporters had reported that voters who trooped out to exercise their franchise during the re-run election beat up the man.
The Labour Party, LP, has described the House of Representatives re-run election in Igbo-Eze/Udenu federal constituency, Enugu State, as a sham and called