Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has reacted bitterly after INEC declared the state's gubernatorial election inconclusive. Yesterday, the returning officer in Imo state, Prof. Ibidapo Obe, declared the election inconclusive because Mr. Okorocha's 79,529 margin against his rival Emeka Ihedioha of PDP was less than the 144,715 number of registered voters in wards where elections did not hold or were cancelled. While speaking to news men at the Government House in Imo State today Monday, Okorocha said...
“The electoral act has talked about registered voters and in the workings of that act and in the spirit of the law, you cannot not make use of number of registered voters, you have to make use of number of PVC collected.
“When you look at the number of PVC collected you find out that there is no need for this supplementary election because the number of PVC collected will be less than the 79,000 votes difference between me and the PDP candidate. But now they are basing on the number of registered voters.
Number of registered voters do not cast the vote; it is the number of PVC collected that does. You can only change the date of a burial but you cannot change the burial. From the results available, the fact speaks for itself, we have won this election despite all the irregularities, I am the winner”
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