The Coalition of Civil Society Organizations on Election Observation and Monitoring in Nigeria, which monitored the recent governorship primaries of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Anambra State has said that its recommendation that the exercise be repeated was due to alleged anomalies it observed during the exercise. After the exercise that took place in all the 326 wards in the state, with Senator Chris Ngige winning by a wide margin of 63255 votes against Godwin Ezemo’s 9554 votes, the group said it could not endorse it because it lacked credibility and fairness. The group said: “If open primaries should be held without delegates as we saw during APC’s 2nd September, 2013 gubernatorial primaries, INEC should ensure the deployment of security officials in all the polling units to protect and secure the life of the voters and also checkmate the snatching of ballot result sheets. “We also noticed late or non arrival of voting materials at some polling units, as well as snatching of result sheets. And even when some of the snatched result sheets were recovered by party officials, they were tampered with and manipulated in favour of a particular candidate,” the group said.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 04:20:36 +0000
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