A pro-democracy group, Enugu Good Governance Group (E-3G), has rejected the votes credited to the Labour Party (LP) candidate in the March 18 governorship election, Chijioke Edeoga, in Nsukka Local Government.
It described it as “a bogus product of a highly militarised, flawed and rigged process.”
The group faulted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for reducing the votes polled by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Dr. Peter Mbah, in Nkanu East Council by 13,394 votes, while retaining the results of Nsukka Local Government, which it said was padded to give the LP undue advantage.
It wondered how four wards alone were able to record over 12,000 votes on a day massive voter apathy was recorded in Nsukka Local Government.
The E-3G made the observations in a statement issued in Enugu yesterday by its National Coordinator, Odinaka Okechukwu.
The body also condemned what it described as grave electoral fraud in Isi-Uzo where it alleged security agents aided Edeoga to rig election at Eha-Amufu ward III.
It said ballot papers were hijacked and allegedly thumb-printed in the house of Edeoga (known as Nkpume), adding that at Isi-Uzo, INEC ad-hoc officials were equally abducted and taken into the bush where results were changed to give Edeoga victory in the local government.