The Governorship candidate of the Labour Party in Imo, Athan Achonu, has rejected the result of saturday’s election, saying he will seek redress in Court.
Achonu further alleged that voting in many locations was done without BVAS accreditation, contrary to the assurances by INEC before the election.
Achonu, in a Televised interview today described the election process as a rape on democracy, as the process was disrupted by criminal elements in the state.
Achonu placed third with 64,081 votes, compared to Samuel Anyanwu of the Peoples Democratic Party with 71,503 and the eventual winner, the incumbent Governor, Hope Uzodimma who won by a large vote tally of 540,308 votes.
He argued that the Returning Officer should have stopped collation following a petition by his party agent that the results at the polling units uploaded to the IREV did not correspond with what the collation officers presented at the state collation centre.
