Mma Odi, the Executive Director of the Emma Ezeazu Centre for Good Governance and Accountability and an anti-graft crusader, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of underhand dealings in Imo State, leading to the declaration of Hope Uzodimma, the incumbent governor and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the winner of last Saturday’s gubernatorial election in the state.
Odi, a rights activist, while in a chat on a monitored program, said that what the electoral umpire did in the off-circle governorship election was very unfortunate. She said: “What happened in the Kogi, Imo and Bayelsa elections, particularly in Imo and Kogi, was very unfortunate.
“And the almighty BIVAS that we were told will be the medicine that will cure our electoral diseases was not able to do just that. “They told us that if you were not accredited, you will not vote because you are not eligible to cast your votes and that BIVAS would show the number of ac-credited voters. Because you are not accredited you cannot vote.
But what INEC did in Imo State and others was very unfortunate and detestable. “INEC went and resurrected all the people that had been murdered in the Orlu Zone. The Orlu Zone has 10 local governments and that particular zone decides elections in Imo State. They went to Okigwe Zone and also resurrected the dead people and also created spiritual polling units.
Even where they did not deploy personnel and materials, they created spiritual polling units and materials, recorded and uploaded non-existent votes. “INEC created results in their imaginations and uploaded the same even where there were no polling units and people were not seen to have come out and vote,” she alleged.
