There was mild drama Wednesday as the Resident Electoral Commissioner
for Imo State, Dr. Gabriel Ada failed to give the accurate number of
registered voters and the number of Permanent Voter Cards (PVC)
collected in the areas where the Commission will conduct supplementary
governorship fixed for April 25.
INEC had while declaring the governorship election inconclusive,
given the figure of registered voters in the affected areas as 144715,
which was higher than the margin with which the All Progressives
Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Governor Rochas Okorocha was
leading his closest rival, Emeka Ihedioha.
But Ada who briefed journalists Wednesday, could not confirm the figure or disclose the number of PVC distributed in the areas. When pressed further, the REC, who had come under fire for the
alleged compromised role of the Commission during the Presidential and
governorship elections in the state, said that “the number is
approximately between 145,000 to 150,000 registered voters”.
He also stated that the number of PVC collected will not form a
threshold for the number of voters that will participate in the
supplementary election, adding that “those that did not collect their
PVC before the election still have the opportunity to do so because only
those with their PVC that will participate in the election”.
The REC who was not also emphatic on the number of Polling Units
where the scheduled election will hold, said that “the election will
hold in over 200 Polling Units in 23 Local Government Areas of the
state”.
He announced further that the APC won 16 seats in the House of
Assembly elections, while the election was inconclusive in six
constituencies and has been rescheduled to hold on the same date with
the supplementary election.
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