By Nicholas Ibekwe


April 12, 2011 12:49AM


Comas Iwu, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Senatorial candidate for Imo North senatorial district has rejected the result of last Saturday’s election, saying the exercise was marred by violence, rigging and inducement of voters.

Mr Iwu, who is also the immediate past Secretary of the Imo State Government told reporters in his home town of Umukabia, Ehime Mbano, that the election was so marred with irregularities that the materials used by INEC in the botched April 2 election were openly sold in the market and used for voting in the April 9 elections.

The ACN candidate also said that in his home of Umukabia, PDP thugs snatched ballot boxes which were later stuffed with already thumb printed ballot papers.

No elections

He said out of the six local government areas that make up the Senatorial District, there was no election in many wards in Obowo, Isiala Mbano and Ehime Mbano council areas. According to Mr Iwu, agents of PDP were bribing accredited voters with amounts ranging from N5,000 to N10,000 in the full glare of security officials electoral commission workers without any arrest being made. He also accused PDP thugs of firing gun shots to scare away voters to create room for them to snatch ballot boxes.

Mr Iwu, however, urged his supporters to remain calm, saying that such an injustice and charade would not stand. “What happened in Okigwe zone was not an election. Some of us are lucky to be alive because of the violence unleashed on ACN supporters across the zone”, Mr Iwu lamented.

He called on INEC to cancel the results of Imo North as no elections was held in majority of the wards and because of the irregularities that characterised the entire exercise


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