A shocking
revelation from the collation centre of the governorship election in Owerri
Imo
State has emerged of how a Returning Officer for one of the LGAs confessed to
how supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) forced her to write
results under gun point.
The Electoral
Officer for Oru East LGA, Mrs. Emmanuella Opara astounded stakeholders
including the state Returning Officer and the State Resident Commissioner of
the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] when she confessed
that she and her colleagues were held hostage for several hours by elders,
youths and thugs in the area and forced to write results of the
governorship polls in favour of the APC.
Mrs Opara added
drama to an already charged atmosphere due to the results emanating from Oru
East which was being vehemently rejected by both agents of the PDP, APGA and
UPP, when she said results were written at the risk of their lives.
The agents were
insisting that the results were falsified and alleged that both the
Electoral officer and the local government collation officer absconded from the
area.
Their positions
was corroborated when Mrs. Opara when she revealed that they were held hostage
for several hours and that they were forced to write the results which they did
to save their lives.
"We were held
hostage by the elders of the area who took us to a house where we were forced
to write the results of the governorship elections and I and the collation
officer for the Oru East local government had no choice but to do what they
asked us to do in order to save our lives because the people were very
aggressive and that was why we could not do the collation in the other wards
and had to come back to our office in Owerri".
The Imo State
Governorship election was declared inconclusive by INEC.
Unbelievable: APC forced us to write results of elections under gun point , says INEC officer
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Monday, April 13, 2015
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