Ngige faults process The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chris Ngige, yesterday formally lodged a complaint with INEC over the sloppy conduct of the election especially in Idemili North,Idemili South,Awka South and parts of Dunukofia,all his strongholds. He said: “This is deliberate because I’m the senator representing there. And they know that my catchment area is there. “However, I believe that I will make inroad and come out with some successful results in other senatorial zones. “But you know that this election is won based on majority of votes cast, who scored the highest number – where a candidate must attain 25 per cent in two-thirds of all the 14 Local Governments Areas of Anambra State. “We have filed in our complaints to INEC, I have spoken to the National Commissioner in charge of Southeast and the administrative secretary, and we’re waiting to see what they can do.” Ngige said he has no confidence in the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Chukwuemeka Onukogu. According to him: “I don’t have confidence in the Resident Electoral Commissioner. At the last interactive session, I asked a question and I told INEC chairman: ‘You have an electoral commissioner who conducted the 2011 election and he worked against my party and myself. We petitioned you. I have an official status as candidate; my party has an official status as a political party. We never heard anything about the petition.’ “I said further that some of the election results we talked about were upturned by the courts – such as the Court of Appeal, vindicating our petition. “They cancelled those places outright, like the votes in Anaocha, where there were no result sheets, and results came in and were accepted. I told him that specifically. “In my constituency – Idemili South, the results were declared inconclusive. There were no by-elections, only for him, after three days, to go and do certificate of return and announce a new result. “So we went to court, and the court upturned all those results. And in those places we won when a eutral persons was brought here to conduct the rerun. “So I’m flabbergasted, I’m surprised, I’m dumbfounded that Prof Onukogu was left here to conduct this election. “We made verbal representations and we were told that RECs don’t stay in their places of domicile to conduct election; that it is neutral RECs that come.”
Posted on: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 13:11:46 +0000
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