COME TO DAY 2 UPDATES OF ANAMBRA ELECTION

10:45am: Situation:  INEC rescheduled Anambra guber election in 65 polling units to be held today, Sunday. But APC demanded elections in 4LGAs – Idemili North, Idemili South, Awka South and Ihiala. Meanwhile reports say INEC has stopped the collation of votes.

11:00am : Chris Ngige is addressing a press conference at Old English Hotel Awka. He  says APC will not participate in the ongoing rescheduled election in Idemili north.

11:15am: APC candidate’s Campaign Director, George Moghalu berates INEC for organising elections on Sunday.

11:17am: INEC has denied suspending collation of results as reported in a section of the media. It  says, ” It is standard practice to collate results when voting has taken place in all LGAs.

11:40am: Ongoing Ngige briefing: I weep for Nigeria, Ngige says, adding that INEC has taken 3 steps backwards.

11:41am: INEC insists elections will hold only in 65 polling units in Obosi, Ward 7 and Idemili North and not in 4LGAs, saying, “the report of elections in four other LGAs is false.”

11:42am:  A citizen reporter, Emmanuel says that election is ongoing in Idemili-north LGA at the polling unit at the Peoples Club  Owerri road. According to him, INEC officials arrived by 10.30am and immediately commenced accreditation.

12:40pm: No fewer than 20 election officials in the Anambra governorship poll were attacked in the early hours of Sunday by armed robbery suspects along the Onitsha-Owerri Expressway.

1:30pm:  Vanguard gathered that collation of results is completed in all local government areas except in  Idemili north where election is ongoing.

1:35pm: Tony Nwoye, the PDP candidate says Jega is worse than Iwu, adding that INEC scientifically rigged the election.

1:50pm:  Meanwhile, INEC chairman, Prof Jega was on AIT and here are excerpts of his interview,  as released by INEC:

” The Electoral Officer in charge of Idemili North… messed up distribution of electoral materials .We believe strongly that there was connivance between the EO and unknown agents to subvert the electoral proces and the Electoral Officer & LGA Supervisor in charge of Idemili North have been handed over to the police.

2:20pm:  Prof Jega says; “ Results in all LGAs were elections were held has been compiled and sent to INEC Hqtrs; As soon as Idemili North results arrive, state collation will be done and the Returning Officer will announce the results the moment collation is concluded.”

2:45pm: PDP candidate, Tony Nwoye blasts Anambra Resident Electoral Commissioner, alleging that he compromised, just as he calls for the cancellation of election results.

4:00pm: Apathy mars Sunday’s rescheduled election in Idemili north LGA; a polling unit with 1000 registered voters, for example, recorded 100 accredited voters.

4:05pm: counting of votes is on at People’s Club poling unit, Nkpor Old Road.

4:10pm: The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) said that it would not subscribe to total cancellation of the Anambra Governorship Election.

4:30pm:APGA chairman, Victor Umeh is holding a press briefing on the Anambra Governorship election. Details soon.

4:40pm: The All Progressives Congress (APC) has demanded a total cancellation of Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State based on the massive disenfranchisement of people across the state, caused by the blatant incompetent and/or deliberate sabotage by the electoral commission itself.

In a statement issued in Lagos,Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,the party said the call for total cancellation supersedes its early call for a rerun in four local government areas,and is based on the report it received from its agents as well as from local and foreign observers during the poll.

Source: vanguardngrnews, #electionvanguard