Imo: INEC has done it again
In 2011, the term “Supplementary Election” was for the first time introduced into the electoral lexicon of the nation after the Independent National Electoral Commission curiously declared the governorship election that held on April 26, 2011 inconclusive and scheduled a “supplementary” election for May 5, 2011.
The lot has again fell on Imo State to provide Nigeria with another opportunity to critically look at the performance of INEC. Put in a different language, the state and its people have once more been made a cannon fodder in the perennial incapacity of INEC to provide Nigeria with credible elections.
But from what transpired from the tribunal to the Court of Appeal, the commission either feigned ignorance of their existence or gave the impression that the results from those units were forged. But even though at the trials INEC pleaded that no polling unit results were excluded, a police officer who was officially sent by the police authorities, upon being subpoenaed by the tribunal, produced results sheets supposedly given to them, the police, by INEC officials and the documents, were admitted as exhibits. Still, INEC neither denied the existence of the 388 polling units in respect of which forms EC88A were tendered and admitted nor did it tender a different set of results.
But expert legal opinion point out that since results from 388 polling units were omitted, any restoration of the results from those units would automatically adjust the total number of accredited voters to include the voters from the excluded polling units. Fortunately, there is one uniqueness in Governor Uzodinma’s emergence that puts him in a good stead to proceed with utmost gusto.
Of course, there can be no doubt that Uzodinma will be challenged to show utmost caution in handling the affairs of the state, especially giving the present circumstance.
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