The Senator representing Abia North senatorial disttict, Mao Ohuabunwa on Friday rejected the results of the Abia-North Senatorial Election held last Saturday, and asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare the poll inconclusive.
Ohuabunwa who spoke with newsmen in Abuja said the election results were marred by unlawful manipulations and unjustifiable cancellations hence the need to declare it inconclusive.
According to him, “Rule 33(e) of INEC Regulations and Guidelines For The Conduct Of Elections, 2019, stipulates that where the number of cancelled votes outnumber the difference in vote of a ‘leading candidate’, such election shall be deemed to be inconclusive.”
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Ohuabunwa argued that from what the Independent National Electoral Commission purports to have as result of Abia-North senatorial election, the gap between the Senatorial Candidate of All Progressives Congress, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, and his (Senator Mao Ohuabunwa), is only ten thousand and four hundred votes.
He further informed that on the other hand, votes cancelled in Arochukwu and Nkporo alone amount to more than thirty-eight thousand.
“By the aforesaid Rule 33(e) of INEC Regulations and Guidelines, Saturday’s senatorial election in Abia-North should have been declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission because the margin of lead between the leading candidates which is 10,400 (ten thousand four hundred) is less than the cancelled votes of over 38,000 ( thirty eight thousand),” he stated.
Assuring that he has since petitioned INEC, Ohuabunwa further insisted that he would employ more drastic legal action should the INEC fails to act respectively.
