Mixed reactions have trailed the declarationof Mr. Peter Obi of the All Progressives
Grand Alliance as the winner of Saturday ’sgovernorship election in Anambra State.
The candidate of the AC, Dr. Chris Ngige, and his Labour Party counterpart, Dr. Andy Uba,
have rejected the results of the election.Speaking on Sunday after INEC declared Obi
the winner of the election, the Director of Planning, Research and Strategy, Ngige
Campaign Organisation, Mr. Kingsley Ezewenyi, said Ngige was rejecting the
outcome of the exercise because of the widespread inconsistencies in the voter
register, which made it impossible for a lot of its supporters to exercise their civic
rights. He said, “We are rejecting the outcome of the election in totality because a lot of
people came out with their permanent voter cards, but were not allowed to vote because
their names were not in the register. I am speaking for Ngige on this issue and that is
the position. “When we got this voter register, we had to download and print.
We did this and  distributed it to all the polling units in the state irrespective of political affiliations for them to see what is there.‘We discovered at that time that 80 per cent of Anambrarians did not have their names
in the register; we called the attention of INEC to this problem and they promised that  they would address it. ” Meanwhile, Uba has asked INEC to cancel the election.Uba said the election was flawed in many ways and therefore could not stand. In a letter on Sunday to the Anambra State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Uba listed seven areas in which the election failed to meet constitutional requirements. In the letter, which was made available to one of our correspondents in Awka, the former presidential aide said INEC failed to provide adequate electoral materials and ballot papers for the election. He said materials arrived late at the polling
units and there was a general complaint by voters that they could not find their names
on the register. He alleged that there was no voting at all in many areas in the state, saying that snatching and stuffing of ballot boxes characterised the poll. Uba said he was particularly pained by the
alleged unjustified cancellation of the election in Uga Ward I in Aguata Local Government Area, which is his own home ward. Most significantly, Uba alleged that the February 6 election was unconstitutional and unlawful as it failed to meet the requirement of the law. “It is pertinent that your commission is absolutely incompetent to conduct the 6th February, 2010 governorship election in Anambra State on the account of the fact of absence of the requisite quorum constitutionally stipulated for the execution of the affairs of the commission with respect to the conduct an election. Being improperly constituted, your commission cannot and is bereft of any lawful authority to conduct the said governorship election in Anambra State. “Accordingly I am constrained to ask you to cancel the said governorship election in Anambra State, same being illegal and
fraught with aforementioned legal disabilities, ” he said.

husu:

If 80% of anambrarians could not find their names in the voters register,then the election need to be cancelled. period!!!!!

husu:

If 80% of anambrarians could not find their names in the voters register,then the election need to be cancelled. period!!!!!

semid4lyfe:

Crap! The voters register was not used eventually. INEC later issued instructions that everyone and anyöne who came with a valid permanent voters registration card should be allowed to cast his/her vote and they DID. Uba and Ngige (whom I wanted to win) should stop crying WOLF when there isn't one. The ELECTION WAS GENERALLY FREE AND FAIR. Kudos to Anambra for doing what Ekiti and other states couldn't do.

semid4lyfe:

Crap! The voters register was not used eventually. INEC later issued instructions that everyone  and anyöne who came with a valid permanent voters registration card should be allowed to cast his/her vote and they DID. Uba and Ngige (whom I wanted to win) should stop crying WOLF when there isn't one. The ELECTION WAS GENERALLY FREE AND FAIR. Kudos to Anambra for doing what Ekiti and other states couldn't do.

We are rejecting the outcome of the election in totality because a lot of
people came out with their permanent voter cards, but were not allowed to vote because
their names were not in the register. I am speaking for Ngige on this issue and that is
the position. “When we got this voter register, we had to download and print.
We did this and  distributed it to all the polling units in the state irrespective of political affiliations for them to see what is there.‘We discovered at that time that 80 per cent of Anambrarians did not have their names
in the register; we called the attention of INEC to this problem and they promised that  they would address it.

OKEYCHIVIV:

Why should anybody listen to characters called Ngige and Uba.
Ngige for all I care should have gone to jail with Chris for
Obi's mandate and should NEVER contest for public office again
foe life-anyway,Ogwugwu-akpu (Okija shrine) is waiting for him.

The number of people that voted effected all of them and the only man
amongst the three that has some credibility-Soludo-has congratulated
Mr Peter Obi.Let them go to court.anambra must move forward whether they loke it or not-amen.