I Declared Ifeanyi Ubah Winner To Save My Life – Returning Officer
The Returning Officer for Saturday’s Anambra South
senatorial election, Prof Meshach Umenweke, has written the
Independent National Electoral Commission recanting his earlier
declaration of the candidate of the Young Progressives Party, Ifeanyi
Ubah, as the winner of the poll.
In the letter, he claimed the election was inconclusive.
He also said he was forced to declare businessman Ubah the winner to save his life.
Umenweke is of the Department of Public and Private Law, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State.
The letter dated February 25 and addressed to the Anambra Resident Electoral Commissioner seen by our correspondent read in part, “That there were skirmishes within the compound of the Nnewi North Local Government Area (headquarters) where the results were being collated between the police and some thugs who sought to gain entrance to the area of collation. The situation was volatile, intense and charged
In the letter, he claimed the election was inconclusive.
He also said he was forced to declare businessman Ubah the winner to save his life.
Umenweke is of the Department of Public and Private Law, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State.
The letter dated February 25 and addressed to the Anambra Resident Electoral Commissioner seen by our correspondent read in part, “That there were skirmishes within the compound of the Nnewi North Local Government Area (headquarters) where the results were being collated between the police and some thugs who sought to gain entrance to the area of collation. The situation was volatile, intense and charged
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