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Two women fainted while several others were injured when security agents dispersed about 300 women protesting the Anambra State governorship election on Wednesday at the state office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Awka.

The women, who identified themselves as Anambra Women, called for the cancellation of the election and the discontinuation of the supplementary election called by INEC at a yet-to-be-announced date.

They carried placards with the inscription, ‘Anambra not for sale’, ‘No election was conducted in Anambra’, ‘Fresh poll not supplementary poll’, ‘INEC cancel 608,000 votes not 113, 113 votes’, among others.

The women were dispersed by security operatives attached to INEC office, who fired teargas canisters into their midst, leaving many of the elderly women wounded while two persons fainted.

One of their leaders, Mrs. Tina Akonobi, said they were at the commission’s office to “mourn for the disaster, destruction, doom, robbery and fraud that took place on the November 16.”

Akonobi added, “The election was a sham aimed at insulting the integrity, intelligence and intellectual ability of the people of the state and Nigeria in general.

“INEC brought a fraudulent register three days to election where they removed names of voters whose name starts with the letter ‘O’ like Okonkwo and Okeke at Idemili.

“They brought fraudulent people to conduct election here; it was a scam and destruction of a generation and Igbo land.

“We are calling for the cancellation and resignation of Prof. Attahiru Jega for the doom that is impending because this is what will happen in 2015.”

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The All Progressives Congress has described as totally inexplicable and unjustifiable the continued detention of the 182 election observers, who were arrested in Imo State two days before last Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State.

The party said the continued detention of the observers was wrong as “even after INEC has publicly said they are duly certified election observers.”

In a statement in Abuja on Wednesday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party expressed shock at the “brazen contempt of court displayed by the police” when the observers were brought before a Magistrate on Monday.

It said even though the charges of conspiracy to commit misdemeanor, unlawful assembly and conduct likely to breach peace were bailable, the police acted “in such an irresponsible, unlawful and contemptuous manner” to ensure the suspects were not granted bail.

APC said, ”Having brought the alleged suspects before a Magistrate, one would have expected that the Imo police command will allow the judicial process to follow its due course. Rather, men and officers of the police command acted in a manner that tainted the entire Nigerian police and called to question their motive for arresting the innocent observers in the first instance.

”Just before the case was called, the police suddenly seized and took away some of the suspects. When this came to the knowledge of the lawyers representing the observers, they raised it with the presiding Magistrates, who ruled that the court will stand the matter down for two hours so that the remaining suspects could be produced before the court.

”Shockingly, the Officer in Charge (Legal) – acting on ‘orders from above’ – brought out his gun and ordered equally gun-wielding men to forcefully return all the accused to the police cell, and right in the presence of the presiding Magistrate and other lawyers, the suspects were taken away and were never returned, forcing the Magistrate to adjourn the case to December 6.”

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