Nigeria decides: APC Chairman tells INEC to cancel Saturday’s election, gives reasons
BOILER-PIPE: Seun Opejobi The Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ini Okopido, has called for the cancellation of the Saturday’s elections in the state. Results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, so far showed that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, swept through the state. However, Okopido said the elections did not meet the requirements of the Electoral Act 2010, hence should be cancelled.
In a statement he issued, Okopido said: “The Akwa Ibom State chapter of the All Progressives Congress , having reviewed all the field reports from its unit agents who participated in the Presidential and National Assembly elections of 23 February 2019, hereby states as follows: “That the elections purported to have been held in the state on the aforementioned date should be cancelled outright for the following reasons: “Failure to, in particular, to deliver election materials to designated RACK...