LP’s candidate in Imo poll Achonu accuses INEC, DSS & police of conspiracy
The candidate of the Labour Party in the just concluded Imo State gubernatorial election, Athan Achonu, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission of conspiring with the Department of State Service and the police in the election.
Achonu came third in the election, which the incumbent Hope Uzodinma, won on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The Labour Party candidate said that he won the election while addressing newsmen shortly after the commission declared the winner of the poll.
The aggrieved politician said, “The security agencies, DSS, police and military raped our democracy. It was like a coup by the security agencies. It was not the fault of INEC. They (INEC) were scared “.
Achonu further explained that INEC chairman, Yakubu Mahmud, shouldn’t have made any declaration because what was on the result sheet differs from the data on the IReV. He also alleged that BIVAS was not used in 70% of the polling units.
He told the newsmen, “We are only waiting for the INEC chairman to tell us why he didn’t stop the collation because you cannot have a collation when what you have on your results sheet is different from what you have on IReV.
“INEC told the whole world that BVAS will work and that BVAS will be used for accreditation. 70 per cent of the voting yesterday was done without BVAS accreditation, yet the result was announced.
“These things (electoral materials) were taken to the homes of commissioners, sole administrators of LGAs and traditional rulers. I call on all ad hoc staff of INEC with evidence of what happened to come forward and expose them.
“There was no election. They promised to do the ward collation at designated collation centres, but they took it to the LGA headquarters and very few to INEC designated centres, and when they got to the LGA headquarters, they only allowed APC commissioners and LGA sole administrators, and the security barred every other person. You can imagine what went on there.”
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