Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday conspicuously had the name of
the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) candidate omitted, as Governor
Rochas Okorocha for the All Progressive Congress (APC) and Captain
Emmanuel Ihenacho for the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA)
surfaced.
LEADERSHIP Weekend reports that the inability of INEC to display the
PDP governorship candidate's name may not be unconnected to a court
injunction obtained at an Abuja high court by one of the governorship
aspirants, which stopped the commission and other interested parties
from carrying out further actions on the matter until the
determination of the suit, which comes up for hearing on January 14.
INEC's position on the controversial guber primary held in Imo State
did not come as a surprise to many in the state, following the barrage
of protests that followed the outcome of the election.
Senator Ifeanyi Araraume, one of the aspirants who was announced as
runner-up to the declared winner, the deputy speaker, House of
Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, had protested that the election was
manipulated in favour of the latter.
Araraume, who polled 336 votes in the election, against Ihedioha's
346, had earlier complained of injustice after the announcement of the
result at the state secretariat of the party, before heading to court.
Meanwhile, Okorocha, who was speculated to have issues with INEC over
his purported late submission of his name to the election body's
headquarters, after a hurriedly conducted primary the same day he lost
the APC presidential primary, has been cleared by INEC, just as
Ihenacho, who has had a running battle with one of the APGA aspirant,
Okey Ezeh, after a purported parallel election in the party, also
scaled through.
--Leadership
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