Voting Ends As Counting Starts In Imo

Voting has closed in most places in the Imo governorship re-run
election while counting is ongoing, correspondents of the News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN) report.

At Ossemotor in Oguta local government, voting ended around 3.40 p.m.
while counting commenced immediately while it ended in most other
places around 5 p.m.

The election has been characterised by violence and other electoral
malpractice, especially in Oru East local government.

The election is holding in some polling units in 23 local government
areas which were cancelled or inconclusive in the April 11 election.

Meanwhile, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr Marshall
Anyanwu, complained that there were too many unaccredited observers at
the election, especially in Omuma, Oru East local government.

Anyanwu, a former chairman of APC in the state, told newsmen at the
Omuma Central School that state government officials, posing as
observers, were all over the place in contravention of the electoral
law.