‘This Is The Worst Rigging I Have Ever Seen, INEC Deceived Us’

The just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections, have continued to generate dust, with a contender saying of it “This is the worst rigging I have ever seen”.

He also added that the Independent National Electoral Commission had deceived Nigerians by creating the impression that the BVAS would help eliminate rigging.

A People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Senatorial Candidate in Abia North, Senator MAO Ohuabunwa, stated these while rejecting the results of the elections.

The Eagle reports that the senator while speaking with journalists in Umuahia, declared that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had breached the Electoral Act by announcing an election it had declared inconclusive.

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According to him, the electoral umpire, on Sunday rescheduled elections in about 100 polling units in some local governments of Abia, including Arochukwu and Ohafia to Monday.

“We mobilised our people and they trooped out to cast their votes only for us to hear that INEC announced a winner, when it had yet to conclude the exercise.

“This is unacceptable to us and we demand that the election be cancelled and fresh election conducted in the 100 polling units.

“I am rejecting the result totally and calling on INEC to conduct elections in the remaining polling units.

“There are over 100 polling units with at least 60,000 voters in those areas, which is my own area,” Ohuabunwa said.

“I do not care if somebody wins but the process must be clean and conclusive,” he said.

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Ohuabunwa said that the commission had as a result of its action, disenfranchised 60,000 voters in the area.

According to him, as at about 3pm when INEC officials could not arrive with election materials, that he personally gave money for the hiring of 12 buses to assist in the distribution of materials from the Local Government headquarters to the polling units.

He added however that as at this time, many people had become tired and gone home.

“Election did not start until about 4pm, while the Bimodal Voter Verification System machine was bypassed in the sending of results at the local government level,” Ohuabunwa said.

“Unfortunately, this is the worst rigging I have ever seen”, he declared.