The Anambra State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has
accused the Peoples Democratic Party of using residential houses, hotels
and other secret places for collation of electoral results.
The party also said most of the legitimate collation centres were left empty without any sign of electoral activities.
The senator representing Anambra Central and who is also seeking
reelection, Dr. Chris Ngige, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) yesterday in Awka, said powerful persons in the state had held on
to the results of the elections, hence the delay in announcement of
electoral results.
He also said results sheets were also not made available at the
centres. Ngige, who called for the outright cancellation of elections in
the state, said to further compound the situation, the number of people
accredited and expected to vote during Saturday's election at different
polling stations were not made public by INEC
officials.
"In some places, the accreditation was done alongside the voting
proper. People voted as many times as possible," he alleged. According
to Ngige, the accreditation was done with a view to manipulating the
results, adding that in most places, the fingers of voters were not
inked.
He said names of voters were being written on fresh sheets of paper
during the accreditation, which gave room for serious manipulation.
He said over 200 policemen were accompanied by some PDP stalwarts to
some local government areas with the intention of forcing electoral
officers to sign blank result sheets.
But speaking to our correspondent in an interview on Sunday, the
Residential Electoral Commissioner, Anambra State, Mr. Edwin Nwatarali,
said no report had been brought to him showing that fingers were not
inked during the elections.
He said the commission had to move collation centres from troubled
zones to other collation centres that were peaceful after a clash
occurred on Sunday in one of the collation centres.
He said threats to lives of INEC personnel and materials had been reported to him, and the situation was under control.
