OWERRI—barring any
unforeseen circumstance, the supplementary poll to determine the eventual
winners of the inconclusive Okigwe re-run senatorial election, as well as the
State Assembly seats for Oru East and Isiala Mbano, would now hold on Thursday
this week.
Confirming this yesterday in Owerri, the Resident Electoral
Commissioner, REC, Mr. Nasir Ayilara, said that the commission would do
everything possible to get done with the exercise this week.
Meanwhile, reactions
have continued to trail the result released by INEC for the Okigwe senatorial
zone re-run election. Addressing journalists in Owerri, the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, candidate for the senatorial seat, Chief Athanatius Achonu, who
thanked the people for defying the rains to exercise their legitimate
franchise, however, frowned at the absence of collation officers at the
collation centres.
“I have the results announced in the various polling units
of the local government areas, which showed that I was comfortably leading the
All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate.
I urge INEC t do the needful by
granting the wish of Okigwe people”, Achonu pleaded. When contacted to respond
to the allegation, the State APC Deputy Chairman, Mr. Ugochukwu Nzekwe,
described Nigerians as “bad losers”.
While agreeing that “the re-run election may
not have been very perfect, even as events have shown that Nigerians are very
bad losers”, Nzekwe queried how anybody would have expected APC to lose the
crucial election.
“I won’t be surprised if the APC candidate is finally
declared the winner after the supplementary election, especially as he is
clearly ahead of his closest PDP rival, by 8,000 votes”, Nzekwe said. Read the original article here
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