HeadlinePDP, APC, Labour Party in Joint Call For Cancellation of Anambra Election.

PDP, APC, Labour Party in Joint Call For Cancellation of Anambra Election.

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BEVERLY HILLS, CA, November 17, (THEWILL) – Candidates of three out of the four major parties, which contested the Saturday governorship poll in Anambra state, have signed a joint statement calling for the total cancellation of the election the election.

Dr. Patrick Ifeanyi (Labour Party), Mr. Tony Nwoye (Peoples Democratic Party) and Dr. Chris Ngige (All Progressive Congress) signed the joint communiqué Sunday evening in Akwa, the Anambra state capital.

According to the communiqué, the Independent National Electoral Commission must cancel the entire election because of:

· Gross Manipulation of the Voters Register leading to gross disfranchisement of thousands of innocent voters.

· Illegal removal of results sheets, doctoring of result sheets, illegal removal of ballot booklets and thumb-printing of the said ballot papers.

· Harassment and intimidation of Polling Agents by security officials and party thugs.

Use of a Voters Register in some Local Government Councils different from Voters Register (INEC) made available to candidates.

· Late arrival of electoral materials.
· Manipulating of results in many polling units where no polling took place

Thus the three candidates maintained that the “sham election does not reflect the wishes and aspirations of the Anambra voters, and therefore called for the outright cancellation of the election. To buttress their claim that the election was manipulated, they cited “the public admission by Prof. Attahiru Jega, the INEC chairman, that some INEC staffs sabotaged the conduct of the election.”

Jega admitted that much on a live programme on African Independent Television (AIT) on Sunday afternoon when he was explaining why voting materials arrived late at some polling booths, saying that the suspects have been handed over to the Police for investigation and arraignment. The communiqué said that INEC should have cancelled and rescheduled the election the moment it learnt of the sabotage by its own staff.

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