Imo Re-Run Election: Polls to Hold in 250 Polling Booths, Six Assembly Constituency Seats Affected

After much speculations surrounding the out come of the April 11th,
2015 gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections in Imo state,
the Independent National Electoral Commission's Resident Electoral
Commissioner for Imo State, Dr Gabriel Ada has at last fixed 25th
April, 2015 for the election re-run in the State.

Briefing Newsmen in Owerri Wednesday at the Commission's secretariat
located on Port Harcourt Road, Owerri, Dr Ada revealed that the
reasons for declaring the last weekend elections in Imo state
inconclusive by the INEC state Returning Officer, Prof Ibidape-Obe was
because of irregularities and violence which halted the elections in
various polling units.

"I hereby announce to you that over 250 polling booths across 23 out
of 27 LGAs of Imo state were ruined by election violence.

And number of registered voters in the areas are approximately
145,000. INEC has set up machineries in motion to ensure that all the
collation Officers who manipulated figures in the course of presenting
election results as well as those who were found guilty of electoral
offences are being brought to book at the end of this exercise.

May I also announce that INEC has declared the underlisted state
Assembly constituencies inconclusive; Owerri-West, Oguta, Ikeduru,
Oru-East, Isu and Isiala Mbano. INEC has also banned manual
accreditation in the electoral process. And will ensure that every
voter is accredited via card reader to ensure free, fair, credible and
transparent election", the REC insisted.

The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner further disclosed that those
who won 28th March National Assembly seat will soon get their
certificate of Returns as the INEC National secretariat has commenced
work on their certificates.

It would be recalled that both All Progressive Congress APC and
People's Democratic Party PDP members have continued to embark on
rampage since Tuesday demanding that their respective candidates
should be declared winner of the election. Meanwhile, results
available show that the three major gubernatorial candidates in Imo
state scored the following votes; Capt Emma Ihenacho of APGA = 28,238
votes, Hon Emeka Ihedioha of PDP = 306,142 while Gov Rochas Okorocha
of APC scored 385,671 votes.