By Okey Alozie
Controversy is said to have mared the last guber and House of Assembly elections in Imo as INEC declared the election in – conclusive and may be heading for supplementary election in the state.
Our reporter who monitored the election observed that events were turned upside down in many pooling stations in some areas of the state.
Some INEC Officials were reportedly attacked at various centers by party agents and hired turgs. People were also reported to have been injured and killed at different Local Government Areas during last Saturday’s election.
APC and PDP are currently battling for supremacy and testing their popularity at various communities.
In Aboh Mbaise and Oru West more than 3 people are feared dead while others who sustained various degrees of injuries are said to be receiving treatment in various hospitals in the state.
Fillers from some of the Local Government Areas revealed that turgs suspected to have been hired by party agents disrupted election in some places and snatched ballot boxes. Six (6) young men are right now in police net for allegedly attempting to snatch electoral materials at Ahiazu Mbaise, precisely Umuediabali.
A young man (names with held) is reported to have, set his mother’s shop on fire in Ihite Uboma over his mother voting for APC.
The young man who was said to have almost killed his mother for the same reason ran away as youths in the area intervained.
“There should not have been any context if Imolites actually reciprocated to my good gesture of providing infrastructural development in communities” Okorocha submitted.
Governor Okorocha however has complained that INEC did not do a good job in Mbaise the home of his closest rival Emeka Ihedioha. He accepted the re-run election but demanded that it should be immediately boasting that he will flaw Ihedioha and win with wide margin.
Ihedioha according to source is claiming that he should have been the winner. Some of his party members revealed that the PDP candidate Chief Ihedioha is leading with the number of voter casted.
