Jega's INEC not better than Iwu.s

The candidate for the All Progressives Congress for Saturday’s Anambra governorship election, Senator Chris Ngige, has said he doubts if the Attahiru Jega-led Independent National Electoral Commission is better than that of Prof. Maurice Iwu.



Ngige, at a news conference on Sunday where he announced that the APC had decided not to participate in the rerun in 65 polling units in Idemili Local Government Area, alleged that the poll on Saturday, was fraught with irregularities.

He said, “The election was fraud-ridden. We are going to demand for the cancellation of the entire exercise.
“We do not know whether INEC under Prof Maurice Iwu is better. 2015 is around the corner, where do we go from here? With the average conduct of the 2011 elections, we were hoping to improve on our imperfections in future elections; but with all that happened yesterday(Saturday), it is now obvious that INEC already has a grand plan to rig the 2015 general elections.”

Ngige said he was weeping for Nigeria over INEC’s inability to conduct credible polls.
He claimed that there were irregularities, including disenfranchisement of eligible voters and acute shortage of electoral materials in Idemili North, Idemili South, Awka South and Ihiala local government areas where he said he had support base of over 377,000 registered voters.

Ngige added, “In Idemili North LGA, none of the electoral materials came with result sheets. The result sheets only came around 4.30pm after most voters had left the scene. This is in addition to the fact that the names of most eligible voters were missing in the list brought by INEC officials to my areas of stronghold.
“It was a systematic and scientific way of removing strongholds or settlements favourable to the APC. They were cleaned up and removed.

“Our agents were also forcefully sent out of polling units in Onitsha North, Nnewi South, Awka North, Ogbaru, Anaocha and parts of Orumba South LGAs, so that the opposition could have field a day to do what they wanted.”