Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has expressed a belief that there will be re-run elections in Imo State due to apparent irregularities that trailed the elections in the state.
Speaking with State House Correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, stated that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) didn’t receive the 25 percent votes required to be declared winner.
“The governorship candidate of PDP never won that election because the election flouted section 179 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which says that you must have the highest votes and you must have 25 percent in two-thirds of the local governments. Now, this gentleman who was declared the winner by the same INEC, had 135,000 votes from 24 local governments but had over 130,000 votes from his three local governments. Of course you know, he didn’t win that election,” Okorocha said.
He added that his party received the highest votes but the returning officer lacked the patience to calculate the results correctly which would have indicated that a rerun was required.
“Also flouting that basic Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which says you must have 25 percent in two-third, he doesn’t have it. Okorocha said
The Imo State governor also berated INEC for refusing to issue him a certificate of return saying there was no evidence that INEC returning officer was put under duress to into declare him winner of the Senatorial election.