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Politics Updated: March 23, 2023

2023 Elections: Labour Party Rejects Enugu Guber Poll Result

By Yusuf Adua
March 23, 2023
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Following the declaration of Saturday’s election by the Independent National Electoral Commission which produced the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Peter Mbah in Enugu as the winner of the race, the Labour Party has rejected the result. 

INEC on Wednesday evening had declared the winner amidst the controversies surrounding Nkanu East Local Government Area, where the results were recalculated over allegations of over-voting, among others.

Before now, LP’s agent, Dr Eugene Edeoga, on Sunday night, expressed dissatisfaction with the voting in the local government under the argument that elections therein were not conducted in line with INEC Guidelines.

According to the party agent, over-voting, manipulation of election results, and  the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System machine were not used in the local government.

Therefore he urged INEC to cancel the election in the local government area and suspend the coalition and declaration of poll results.

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But INEC On Wednesday said it had revised the results and found out that there was manipulation and over-voting in Nkanu East LGA.

The commission allocated votes to parties according to what it said were genuine votes from the local government.

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While reacting to the declared results by INEC, the Labour Party said it had decided not to accept the result.

It said the polls were affected by thundersome and wholesale rigging, intimidation of voters, doctoring, mutilation, and manipulation of the results.

In a statement issued on Thursday by the party’s Publicity Secretary in the state, Onuora Odo, the party said it would not approve of the result because of the irregularities in the election, particularly at Nkanu East.”

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“It’s also on record that in the course of the collation of results, the results of Nkanu East showed monumental disparities between the number of registered voters and the total number of votes, but the obviously compromised INEC decided to disregard the provisions of the Electoral Act and went ahead to declare the conspicuously padded results despite complaints from the opposition parties."

He alleged that INEC deliberately delayed the announcement of the result to allow for further manipulations of the result.

“The position of the party, therefore, is that the result as declared by INEC on the 22nd of March, 2023, four days after the elections were concluded, was heavily doctored and did not reflect the wishes of Ndi Enugu State.

“In view of the foregoing developments, we are, by this media release, registering our dissatisfaction over the electoral irregularities and malfeasances activated and actuated by heavy financial inducements,” he added.

He opined that though the party is determined to deepen democracy in the country, it won’t fold its arms and allow what it perceived as sheer electoral irregularity to stand.

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He foretold that the party would soon send a petition to the appropriate authorities with the multiple of facts available to it.

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