The Labour Party governorship candidate for Imo State, Athan Achonu, and scores of his supporters on Thursday stormed the national headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja to demand the certified true copy of the result of the just-concluded poll in the state.
Achonu, accompanied by the National Youth Leader, Kennedy Ahanotu, also accused the electoral umpire of playing double standard in the November 11 off-cycle election.
The protest came two weeks after INEC declared Governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress the winner of the election.
The APC candidate polled 540,308 votes to beat Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party, who scored 71,503 votes, and Achonu, who scored 64,081 votes.
However, the two opposition candidates rejected the result and declared that electoral irregularities marred the election.
The long procession, which saw the demonstrators chanting solidarity songs and displaying various banners that read “INEC Give Us Our CTC,” “Respect Our Law,” and “INEC Has Become Headache to Nigerian People,” caused a gridlock.
CREDIT: Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis
