Posted on: 05:05 Sat, 20 Feb 2016



Sequel to disturbances and protest staged by some youths of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and some women at the Imo State headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday, the electoral umpire has suspended indefinitely the scheduled rerun for Imo North.

According to the administrative secretary of
the commission in the state, Chinedu
Oburunobi, who addressed journalists, the INEC
was not comfortable with the protest and
disturbance, hence the suspension of the
rerun.

It would be recalled that hundreds of youths of
APC and some women besieged the INEC
office along Port Harcourt Road, Owerri as
early as 7 a.m., demanding the removal of
some officers of the commission they claimed
belonged to the opposition party.

The rerun was as a result of the cancellation of
the 2015 Senatorial election for Imo North won
by Chief Athan Achonu of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), challenged by
Benjamin Uwajumogu, former Speaker of the
state assembly who is on the platform of the
APC.