The April 9th 2011 election has come and gone but its reverberating
effect in Imo State will continue for a very long time because the
common will of the people have been short changed.
It should be recalled that on the 22rd of March 2011, this writer
Citizen Ikenna Samuelson Iwuoha did an expose on how INEC PDP and
Ikedi Ohakim planned to rig the election in Imo State. It was entitled
‘’As INEC CONCLUDES PLANS TO RIG ELECTION IN IMO STATE FOR IKEDI
OHAKIM’’ (please see attached). This was published in several
Newspapers, Magazines and On-line News agencies. Also this writer did
a follow up on the 7th of April 2011. (Please see attached). It was
also published in many Newspapers, magazines and on-line agencies.
It is equally important to note that apart from the fact that
Professor (Mrs.) Selina Okoh the state INEC Resident Electoral
Commissioner and the State INEC Administrative Secretary are very
corrupt people who assisted in rigging the April 9th 2011 election for
PDP. It should be noted that the appointment of Professor Celestine
O.E Onwuliri, the Vice-chancellor of the Federal University of
Technology (FUTO) and Husband of the Deputy Governorship candidate of
PDP as the state Returning Officer for governorship and presidential
elections is an indictment on Professor Attahiru Jega. This
information of appointment of Professor Celestine Onwuliri as the
State Returning Officer is contained in a letter date April 1 2011 and
addressed to the resident electoral commissioner INEC Imo State (Prof
Selina Okoh) with reference number INEC/CH/ROE/VOL.I and signed by
Professor Attahiru Jega himself. Despite opposition to the appointment
of professor Celestine Onwuliri as the State Returning Officer,
Professor Attahiru Jega still refused to change him as at 12th April
2011. Apart from that, many FUTO lecturers have been appointed as
local government returning officers. Also lecturers of Federal
Polytechnic Nekede are local government returning officers. The rector
of the polytechnic is the wife of current commissioner for education
in Imo State, Professor Jude Njoku. It is therefore very obvious that
there is a clear conspiracy to ruthlessly rig the on-going election
for Imo PDP as it happened on the 9th of April which was that of the
National Assembly Election Day.
Let me use the April 9th election to prove that there in indeed a
conspiracy among INEC officials, PDP and Ikedi Ohakim to rig the
election.

Using Owerri Municipal as a test case, election materials were
distributed late. In ALADINMA WARD I in Owerri Municipal, election in
Booth 001 was cancelled by residents of the ward because it was
discovered that all the 668 voter- registered people in that booth do
not live in the ward and are unknown people. The same fake voter’s
registration happened in so many wards in the State. In Ohaji/Egbema,
the speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Mr Goodluck Nana Opia
used Lorry loads of armed men to intimidate, harass and disperse
voters. Ballot boxes were then carried under the watchful eyes of
police officers. In Ohaji L.G.A, results announced by INEC were far
above the registered number of voters. In Oru West L.G.A, the former
secretary to the state government Mr. Ignatius Umunna was seen
snatching ballot boxes with his armed boys. He took the ballot boxes
with to his house and thumb printing started.


In MBUTU WARD, ABOH MBAISE, the following happened.
1 At Isiala town hall (001 unit), there were no voting and no result
because of gunshots that scared voters away and Armed thugs employed
by “Hon”. Emeka Ihedioha the PDP candidate carted away all the
electoral materials including ballot papers and result sheets.
2. At town school Mbutu (010 unit), there were no voting and no result
because the ACN agents were kidnapped by Armed thugs and so the
voters ran away for fear of their lives.
3. At Ubaha hall polling booths, no results were declared because the
ballot boxes were carted away by armed thugs employed by the PDP
candidate. The booths are 016 and 018 units.
4. At Ihetteoha hall polling booths, no results were declared because
the ballot boxes were also made away with by armed thugs employed by
the same PDP candidate. The units are 011 and 012. etc.
The major reason why the above elaborated situation successfully took
place in these booths are as follows

1. Thugs armed to the teeth and wearing all forms uniform employed by
“Hon”. Emeka Ihedioha were deployed to these booths in various
vehicles and they went from one booth to the other carting away all
election materials.
2. Many party agents apart from PDP agents were either abducted or assaulted.
As a consequence of these acts of the thuggery and violence on party
agents and the disruption of normal voting exercise, “Hon”. Emeka
Ihedioha and his armed boys took away all the election materials to
their “safe heavens”. There, they fabricated results. Indeed, no
accreditation, no voting, no counting of votes and no results entered
in any of these booths in Mbutu ward. No wonder it is only the PDP
agents alone signed the ward result sheets. However, at the Aboh
Mbaise INEC office, results appeared from no where and the Returning
Officer accepted them despite objections from other party agents.
Consequently the results were used in determining the outcome of the
election.

The case of Isi –ala Mbano local government area that of desperado.
Both Mr. Ikedi Ohakim and the PDP candidate for Okigwe North Federal
Constituency Mr. Chikwem Onuoha were openly seen instructing ward
returning officers to manipulate results. Also Ikedi Ohakim openly
contravened the electoral act by moving from one local government to
another in his long convey of vehicles and with over fifty armed
police men. Ikedi Ohakim visited Nwangele L.G.A twice. He visited
Mbaitolu L.G.A once. He visited Ikeduru L.G.A once. He also visited
Onuimo and Isu L.G.A. He specifically visited six wards in Isi-ala
Mbano L.G.A. This is purely against the electoral act. The case of Mr.
Chikwem Onuoha in a pure electoral fraud.

Mr.Chikwem Onuoha connived with Ikedi Ohakim and rigged the OSUAMA
ANARA ward election by forcing the ward returning officers to change
the figures at the ward collation center. Chikwem Onuoha was also
involved in ballot box snatching and confiscation of election
materials. He used his personal vehicles for this purpose.

Please see
attached pictures. He moved about with over ten armed police men and
thugs at OSU-OWERRE Ward I which happened to be Ikedi Ohakim’s ward
Chikwem Onuoha was seen at the collation centre influencing the
returning officers to inflate figures for PDP. When news of what
Chikwem Onuoha was doing spread throughout ISI-ALA Mbano L.G.A, youths
of the local government came out in anger to confront and resist his
anti-electoral act behavior. The ISI-ALA Mbano youths numbering in
their hundreds led by one Mr. Ben Uwakwe popularly called “OBELEUGWU”
finally caught Chikwem Onuoha at OSU-OWERRE Ward II (UMU-ICHI Centre)
doing the same manipulation of election centre. So they descended on
him and beat the “electoral fraud” out of him. He was beaten at the
OSU-OWERRE Ward II collation centre located at UMU-ICHI. The pictures
of his vehicles used to snatch electoral materials were also taken.

Toyota corolla saloon car with registration number “Lagos EE 571EKY.
Please see attached pictures. It is worthy to note that Chikwem
Onuoha’s opponents in the Okigwe North Federal Constituency election
did not cause havoc, violence and electoral fraud in their respective
local governments. For the records, Okigwe North Federal Constituency
is made up of three local government areas, namely
1. ISI-ALA MBANO
2. ONUIMO L.G.A
3. OKIGWE L.G.A.

Both the ACN and APGA candidate did not cause problems in their Okigwe
local government during the National Assembly elections. The CPC
candidate did not cause any problem in Onuimo local government. It
therefore means that the ACN, APGA and CPC candidates conducted
themselves in accordance with the electoral act. The question now is,
why should Mr. Chikwem Onuoha who is the PDP candidate contravene the
electoral act by moving from one polling unit to another polling unit
manipulating figures of votes cast?. It should be noted that after
Chikwem Onuoha was beaten up by the youths, he was stripped to his
pants. He was therefore taken to ISI-ALA Mbano police station where he
personally made useful statements confirming that he was caught by the
youths manipulating figures of the results. Mr.BEN UWAKWE (alias
OBELEUGWU) who led the youths also made useful statements confirming
that Chikwem Onuoha attested to the Commissioner of police that he was
caught by the youths when he was manipulating results in ISI-ALA
Mbano local government area.

One therefore expects the INEC to disqualify Chikwem Onuoha from
further participating in elections. The INEC should also cancel the
results of Isi-ala Mbano L.G.A and uphold the results of the other two
local governments namely
1. ONUIMO L.G.A
2. OKIGWE L.G.A.

It is a shameful thing that Chikwem Onuoha moved about with armed
police men causing trouble and electoral fraud without the INEC
calling him to order. His partner in electoral crime and man-Friday MR
JUDE EGBULEZE from UMUEGBE village in ISI-ALA MBANO L.G.A was also
seen carrying ballot boxes at OSU-ACHARA WARD with his TOYOTA AVLON
saloon car with registration number “LAGOS CX 852 LSD. (please see
attached). He was assisted by armed men. Unfortunately, results of
ISI-ALA Mbano L.G.A for the National Assembly election have been
accepted by INEC despite objections.

In Oguta L.G.A, ballot boxes were snatched in most voting centres by
armed thugs loyal to Ikedi Ohakim led PDP government in Imo State.
Thumb printing of ballot papers took place at the residence of a
notorious politician in Oguta called OPENE.

In Ehime Mbano L.G.A, thumb printing of ballot papers took place at
the residences of (1) Barr. Evang. Jerry Egemba (Umumu ward 6), (2)
Chief Zeek Martins Nnadozie (Nsu ward) (3) Chief Aloy Iwunze (Umumuno
ward 4) (4) Chief Dimaku (Agbaja ward) (5) Chief Amajuoyi Nzerem
(Ikpem ward) (6) Chief Tony Chukwu (Umueze ward I)
In Nkwere L.G.A, the special Assistant to Ikedi Ohakim on political
matters Mr Rex Anunobi was seen personally carrying ballot boxes, he
moved about with soldiers and policemen. He used his house in Nkwerre
village and that of the palace of ESHI of NKWERRE (HRH Eze Dr.
Chijioke Okwara) as the thumb printing centre.
Clearly, in the just concluded National Assembly election, APGA won
the Senatorial seat in Owerri Zone while ACN won the Senatorial seats
in Okigwe Zone and Orlu Zone. But INEC officials as represented by
Professor Selina Okoh, PDP officials, and Ikedi Ohakim rigged the
election and inflated outrageous figures for PDP as if the party is on
ground in the state.

One therefore expects the people of Imo people to troop out enmasse to
peacefully demonstrate against the shameless rigging of the National
Assembly elections which took place on the 9th of April 2011. This
is to give a clear signal that the on –coming governorship election
which will take place on the 26th of April 2011 will never be allowed
to be rigged by the good people of Imo State.
The time to do so is now.

With all this evidence and with help of a friend working at BBC this information has been forwarded to them and has been published on there website

Was the April 16th election rigged as well?

@Odunnu what you should ask is: Were the same 'Actors' in charge on April 16th?