The Returning Officer of the Idemili South Local Government Area in the Anambra governorship election, Dr. Gabriel Othong, has claimed that 41 of the 42 result sheets for 89 polling units were carted away.
Othong disclosed this while submitting results for the area during results collation on Sunday.
The Returning Officer, who is from the University of Calabar in Cross River, claimed that the result sheets of the affected areas were carted away by the Supervising Polling Officer (SPO) posted to the area.
He explained that election did not hold in Oba Ward 1, Oba Ward 11 and Akukwu ward, all in Idemili South Local Government Area of the state.
He said, “One of the SPOs carted 41 Result Sheets out of the 42 Result sheets meant for the 89 polling units in the affected wards.
“Over 40, 000 voters were not able to vote in the affected areas due to the development.”
He added that there were polling units that did not get the deployment of electoral officials because of cases of gunshots.
However, the agent of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Ebere Obiakor, refuted the claim and said that elections took place in those areas but that the results were not collated.
His claim was countered by Dr. Alex Obiogbolu, the collation agent of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who supported the position of the returning officer that there was no election in any of the affected places.
Also, Sen. Victor Umeh of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), reiterated that there was no election in those areas.
After the result collated from the LGA was announced APC got 1,036 votes, APGA-2,312 and PDP-2,016.
Meanwhile, out of the 112, 652 voters in Idemili South LGA, only 6, 622 were accredited for the election.