Politics
#AnambraDecides: INEC declares election inconclusive
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended the collation of results for the Anambra governorship election.
Florence Obi, the returning officer for the election, announced this at a few minutes past 12am today.
According to her, the decision to suspend the collation of results is to give room for a supplementary election in Ihiala LGA, which has been fixed for November 9, 2021.
Ahmadu Umar, the collation officer for Ihiala LGA, had earlier said there was no election in the entire area.
After the collation of results from 20 out of 21 LGAs on Sunday, Soludo secured 103,946 votes, followed by Ozigbo who got 51,322 votes, while Uba had 42,942.
The margin between Soludo and Ozigbo currently stands at 52,624, and according to the collation officer for Ihiala, there are 148,407 registered voters in the LGA.
Citing relevant sections of the constitution, the returning officer said the final collation of results cannot be done until the polling units in Ihiala LGA are covered.
“The outstanding result is for Ihiala LGA, where for various reasons, the commission could not deploy materials yesterday. Consequently, based on constitutional considerations and provisions of the Electoral Act, as well as revised regulations and guidelines for the conduct of election issued by the commission, supplementary election is indicated for Ihiala local government area,” she said.
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