If information getting to www.odogwublog.com is anything to go by, then the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates for Anambra North Senatorial zone and Ogbaru federal House of Representatives may be coasting home for victory but the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Anambra State thanks Anambra Citizens for turning out to en masse to cast their votes in the March 28 2015 polls.
We are however disappointed that the card readers deployed to the state has ‘refused to work’ in a way that cannot be far-removed from sabotage . We have far more indications to that effect, but would rather allow a proper investigation.
We are quick to warn that Anambra State cannot continue to be a laboratory for election perversion, as the fact that the card reader is working in virtually every other state is troubling.
The card reader is an in improvement on the credibility of accreditation process of electorate cannot remain a deading to voting, which has received the opposition from known quarters, but has not seized to be in the regulations for the 2015 General Elections.
We call on INEC to cancel the elections in all areas of Anambra State where the card reader did not work as the card reader forms part of the accreditation process that some states should not enjoy to the exclusion of others
We also urge a proper independent investigation into the massive failures in the use of the card reader, even in Igbo Ukwu Ward 1, where, being the pilot ward for test-running the reader in Anambra State on March 7, 2015, the gadgets succeeded above 80 percent, irrespective e of the outcome of the elections.
Our conclusive position on the card reader and elections held in Anambra State will be the subject of further consultations and subsequent statements.
Regarding all areas or constituencies in which result sheets were not supplied as at the time of voting, the APC calls for total cancellation of those elections as it is void, by the provisions of the Electoral Act. This affected such areas as Ogidi Ward Oba Ward 1, parts of Dunukofia and
Specifically, we call on INEC to cancel the election held in Ogbaru Local Government which is also a federal constituency and hold a proper election in which.’Form EC 25 B ‘sighted by all polling agents at the point of arrival of INEC officials should list the results sheets (Form EC8A, EC8A1 and EC8A 2) should be sighted and matched with the physical presence of the result sheets.
To us this is a minimum condition for the acceptance of polling in that federal constituency and all others areas with similar occurrences.
We also insist that all areas of the state in which materials where delivered after 12 Noon should be cancelled as the integrity of the process had been tampered with.
For the avoidance of any doubt, we reaffirm our confidence in the use of card readers for accreditation , and believe it can work in Anambra State ,like other states, if those sabotaging it; the same people who caused an Electoral Officer to vanish with result sheets ,while enjoying his freedom two years after.
The card reader, in our view, should be used for all future elections.
For: ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC)
Okelo Madukaife
State Publicity Secretary
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