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    #IMODECIDES: Tension at Collation Centre as Opposition Parties Call for Suspension of Results (FOLLOW UPDATES)S

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    • By Kamil Opeyemi & Halimah Olamide

    There was tension at the Imo Collation Centre early Sunday morning as the collation of results went underway with opposition parties kicked against the continuation of results announcement without a record of accreditations.

    However, Prof Abayomi Fasina, Vice Chancellor of the Federal University in Oye, Ekiti, who is the Returning Officer, said he has no power to suspend the collation exercise.

    “I am not the last authority on this matter and I have to pas on to someone else and I have recorded all you have said down and at that level, you can present your petition. I don’t have power to stop collation. By my letter of mandate, i don’t have power to stop collation. I want to advise, don’t impose your idea on every other person.

    The agent of the Labour Party and others had insisted that the Returning Officer should suspend collation and call for records of accreditation claiming that results being presented by INEC officials from the local government showed that votes had exceeded number of accredited voters.

    There are 27 local government areas in the state which are:

    1. Aboh Mbaise
    2. Ahiazu Mbaise
    3. Ehime Mbano
    4. Ezinihitte Mbaise
    5. Ideato North
    6. Ideato South
    7. Ihitte/Uboma
    8. Ikeduru
    9. Isiala Mbano
    10. Isu
    11. Mbaitoli
    12. Ngor Okpala
    13. Njaba
    14. Nkwerre
    15. Nwangele
    16. Obowo
    17. Oguta
    18. Ohaji/Egbema
    19. Okigwe
    20. Onuimo
    21. Orlu
    22. Orsu
    23. Oru East
    24. Oru West
    25. Owerri Municipal
    26. Owerri North
    27. Owerri West

    • LP alleges irregularities, calls for cancellation of results

    Candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in Saturday’s Imo governorship election, Sen. Athan Achonu, has called for a cancellation of results from some polling units over alleged irregularities.
    Achonu made the call while speaking with newsmen in his hometown, Umulumo, in Ehime Mbano council area of Imo, on Saturday.
    He said that agents of his party returned with disturbing reports of hijacking of ballot boxes and other electoral materials as well as vote buying.
    He added that the LP had officially written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for requisite action and called for the cancellation of results emanating from the affected locations.
    He alleged “In parts of Ideato, the process was characterized by ballot box snatching and all manners of irregularities, including intimidation of voters.
    “This is unacceptable. We have already written to INEC to take appropriate steps to ensure that fake results are not uploaded,“ he said.
    He, however, decried the “absence of security personnel in certain places around Orlu and Orsu”, while commending the military for turning up to save the situation in some other areas.
    INEC’s Head of Voter Education, Mrs Emmanuella Opara, however said that the Commission was yet to receive an official report on the alleged irregularities.

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