Imo PDP calls for cancellation of April 11 polls

The leadership of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State has called for total cancellation of the governorship and House of Assembly elections on April 11, 2015 in the state.

Chairman of the party, Chief Nnamdi Anyaehie, who made the call while briefing the press, yesterday, also explained that the party decided to make the plea after carefully studying the alleged monumental fraud orchestrated by All Progressives Congress, APC, during the poll.

Some of the facts cited by the PDP leadership included the faulty card reader machines used in PDP strongholds, inducement of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC,  officers to write results in favour of the APC.

Another alleged sins cited by the PDP leadership was the falsification of poll results in Ezinihitte Mbaise and Oru East local government areas, thereby up-turning the results scored by the PDP.

“There was also the writing of results with non-customised result sheets, which party agents were forced to sign at gunpoint, especially in Ideato North, Nkwerre, Ideato South, Oru West, Nwangele, Isu, Ikeduru and other areas,” Anyaehie said.

The PDP also accused INEC of inconsistency in reducing the number of the polling units earlier announced for the supplementary election scheduled for next Saturday.

He said: “It beats our imagination why INEC should give Ideato South a clean bill of health when there were reported cases of electoral violence in Umuobom, Ogboko, Umuchima, Obiohia, Isiekenesi and a number of other wards.”