The Returning Officer of the Idemili South Local Government Area, Dr. Gabriel Othong has stated that 41 result sheets of the 42 result sheets for 89 polling units were carted away.
According to him, it was carted away by the Supervising Polling Officer (SPO) posted to the area.
He said;
“One of the SPOs carted 41 Result Sheets out of the 42 Result sheets meant for the 89 polling units in the affected wards.
“Over 40, 000 voters were not able to vote in the affected areas due to the development,”
The Returning Officer said some of the polling units did not get deployment of electoral officials due to cases of gunshots.
Chief Ebere Obiakor, the agent of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said there was election in those places but the results were not collated.
But Dr Alex Obiogbolu, the collation agent of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) countered the position of the APC agent, saying there was no election in any of the affected places.
Sen. Victor Umeh of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) corroborated Obiogbolu insisting there was no election in those area.
Meanwhile, the result for the top three parties’ releases for Idemili South were APC- 1,036, APGA-2,312 and PDP-2,016.
Idemili South Local Government Area has a total of 112, 652 out of which only 6, 622 voters were accredited.
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