The petitioner averred that all the scores and purported votes from Aboh Mbaise, Ahiazu Mbaise, Ehime Mbano and other 17 local government council areas of the states, were void and unlawful votes.

Giving ‘’facts’’ in support of the voiding of the election in the stated local government areas, Senator Araraume said that INEC in preparation for the election sourced electoral officers from University of Agriculture, Umudike; that the said electoral officers were ‘’inexplicably’’ changed hours to the election, and replaced them with a different set of untrained electoral officers and ad-hoc staff.

He further averred that the new, untrained electoral officers and ad-hoc staff, most of who hail from Mbaise local government areas, were then appointed and deployed within hours to the commencement of the governorship election, stating that these untrained electoral staff did not subscribe to the oath of neutrality.

The APGA candidate also averred in his petition that there was massive hijacking and diversion of ballot papers and other electoral material to places other than polling units where several booklets of ballot papers were ‘’massively thumb printed’’ by agents of the PDP in favour of Ihedohia in the aforementioned local government areas, coupled with ballot box snatching and stuffing with ballot papers.

He said that the multiple thumb printed ballot papers for Hon. Ihedioha were subsequently stuffed into the ballot boxes and recorded in favour of the PDP and its candidate in the stated local government areas.

The senator also averred that out of the 27 local government areas in the state, the purported winner of the election scored 25 percent of total votes cast in only 12 local government areas, thereby rendering his purported return invalid.

Source:- Leadershipng

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