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INEC Returning Officer Orders Arrest Of Two Electoral Officers In Imo State For Manipulating Results

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Two INEC Officers Allegedly Falsify Results In Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area Of Imo State

The State Returning Officer for the Imo State governorship election, Prof. Francis Otuana, has ordered the arrest of the Electoral Officer and the Returning Officer in charge of Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area, Ezirim Kelechi and Chris Ogbuadu for allegedly falsifying the election results.

Trouble started for the duo, after one of the party agents, raised a point of objection on the figure announced as the result for two polling units, which did not tally with the figures obtained at the polling units by the respective party agents.

On interrogation, it was discovered that the Electoral Officers went behind the party agents to include the already cancelled results to the figures after they had issued the party agents with the duplicate copies that contained the correct result.

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Otuana, thereafter declared the action of the duo as an electoral offence and immediately handed them over to security agents.

Immediately the orders were given, security operatives moved in and led Ehirim and Christian Ogbuagbu, the electoral officer of the LGA, away.

The duo were later handcuffed and taken out of the collation centre.

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Otuana, a professor, is the vice-chancellor, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia state and had said he was not under pressure to declare any politician winner of the election.

“I want to assure you I’m not under any pressure to declare anybody winner. We just want to speed up the process,” he had said.