The Returning Officer for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Imo State, Christian Ogbuagbu, has handed over two collation officers to security agents over the manipulation of results in Ohaji/Egbema local government area.
One of the collation officers, Ehirim Kelechi, told Mr Ogbuagbu that he altered the original copy of the results after issuing duplicates to party agents.
He said he added over 1,000 votes to the results.
The discrepancies in the results were discovered when Mr Ehirim read out the results which did not tally with that which party agents had.
The returning officer then said, “Ladies and Gentlemen, firstly, the results of the ward, Obitti/Mgbishi, stands cancelled because after the CO had given the results to the agents…”
“I have been advised to note that the action constitutes electoral malpractice. I hereby hand over the case to the security agents to handle.”
