Some members of the Labour Party on Saturday in Enugu State, protested the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to provide original result sheets for the Enugu South Urban State Constituency re-run election.
The members of the party at the Robinson Primary School, Uwani and Uwani Secondary School, venues of the election alleged that INEC failed to present the original result sheets for the election.
Meanwhile, members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who held a counter protest, argued that they have seen the result sheets, insisting that the election must hold as planned.
OsunDailyNG reports that the by-election is holding in only eight polling units at the Robinson Primary School, Uwani and Uwani Secondary School, situated on the same street.
As at 12 noon, the election was yet to commence in spite the huge presence of military, police and DSS operatives due to disagreement on the availability of result sheet.
INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner in Enugu, Chukwuemeka Chukwu, who arrived at the venue of the election at about 11:45a.m., appealed to voters to allow for the conduct of the election, a plea which was roundly rejected.
The REC who had earlier spoken to reporters, said he has not been briefed on why the election was yet to commence.
Reacting to the problem, the Senator representing Enugu East Senatorial district, Sen. Kelvin Chukwu, and the member representing Enugu North/South Federal Constituency, Chimaobi Atu accused INEC officials of compromise.
Chukwu alleged that the election has been compromised.
“I got to this place; I met with the electoral officer and told him to do the simplest thing by showing all the candidates the original result sheets which he has not produced,” he added.
