neAnambra Governorship Election LATEST: APCIssues Warning, First Results Come In, TwoShot For Ballot Box Snatching16.11.2013, 16:57

First results of the 2013 Anambra
Governorship Election just came in:
OGIDI TOWN HALL, IDEMILI NORTH, IN
ANAMBRA STATE
Polling Unit 009
APC-58
PDP-22
APGA-23
LP-4
ACCORD-1
CPP-1
DPP-1
APA3
ACD-1
ACPN-1
Polling Unit 010, voting point 1
APGA-8
APC-39
PDP-14
PPA-3
APA-1
CPP-1
INVALID is 1
Polling Unit 010, voting point II
APC-13
PDP-4
APGA-4
PPA-1
INVALID 1
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Meanwhile, reports reaching us indicate that
two people have been shot in Amaenyi, Awka
South Local Government Area . They were
allegedly attempting to steal ballot boxes.
We'll post the updates as soon as we get
them.
In a related development, the All Progressives
Congress (APC) has warned they will not
accept the results of the ongoing
governorship election in Anambra state unless
the voting takes place in all local
governments. Namely, in the APC's
strongholds of Idemili North and South, as
well as in Akwa South.
The party, in a statement by its Interim
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, also accused the INEC for its
apparently contrived "logistic nightmare".
Thousands of voters were left unable to
exercise their franchise, the party said, and
demanded the immediate removal of the
Resident Electoral Commissioner for Anambra,
Prof. Chukwuemeka Onukogu.
APC said it was totally astonished to learn
that INEC has confirmed that materials meant
for Idemili North Local Government, which has
180,000 voters, have been hijacked, without
saying who hijacked the ballot papers and
why, and without explaining why the materials
meant for APGA and PDP strongholds were
not hijacked.
The party said equally astonishing is the fact
that the voter's registers for Idemili South, the
direct council of the APC candidate, Dr. Chris
Ngige, did not contain the names of voters in
the local government, despite the assurances
by INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega.