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Election Tribunal In Delta State by talk2kelbemyt(m): 8:01pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
INEC Says Delta State Governor Had More Votes
Than Accredited Voters in the State
INEC officials who appeared before the Delta state
Election tribunal sitting in Asaba the state capital,
yesterday August 26th, told members of the tribunal
that after the April 11th governorship elections had
been concluded, it was discovered that the state
governor, Ifeanyi Okowa who was declared winner
of the election, had more number of votes than the
number of accredited voters during the April 14th
governorship election. Two INEC officials, Assistant
Director, ICT Department from Abuja headquarters
and Chief Planning Officer, Delta State office,
tendered the accreditation report of the April 11
election before the tribunal on the instance of the
APC its candidate, Emerhor Otega who is challenging
the election results.
The INEC staff told the tribunal that the card readers
recorded no sustained failure during the
governorship election in Delta state and accredited
numbers of voters as at April 29th was 709,000 and
at the expiration of the shutting down of data
upload, the final tally was 715,393. However on April
13, Delta State INEC had put the figure of accredited
voters at 1,017,796, exceeding actual accreditation
number revealed by the admitted report obtained
from INEC central server which collates data real
time during accreditation from the various polling
units.
Delta state returning officer Bio Nyananyo while
announcing the governorship results, said the PDP
candidate polled 724,680 votes, which translated to
14,980 votes higher than actual number of
accredited voters.BEM ACHIR |
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