On Saturday, April 15, supplementary elections were held in different places across Nigeria.
One of such places is the Mbaitoli/Ikeduru Federal Constituency in Imo state.
However, Uche Ogbuagu, the Labour Party (LP) candidate for the federal constituency has faulted the results.
His rejection of the results came after the electoral body declared Akarachi Amadi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner.
He says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), should have announced him instead.
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Boniface Chidi Okoro, the returning officer, said Amadi polled a total of 21,372 votes to beat the LP candidate who got 18,296 votes.
Speaking with journalists, the LP candidate described the exercise as a “charade”.
A Laughable Result
“Everyone knows that I won the election,” Mr Ogbuagu says.
“I won in the first election with over 5,000 votes and I still won in this supplementary election,” he alleges.
“How on earth will someone who has a leading margin of over 5,000 in the main election lose a supplementary which had BVAS accredited voters that were less than the leading margin,” he queries.
Furthermore, he says the result announced by INEC “is laughable”.
“Is it possible that the same Mbaike people who gave me over 17,000 votes in the main election will abandon me at the supplementary?
“That’s not possible. My people overwhelmingly voted for me both at the main election and supplementary.
“I only blame INEC for failing to do the right thing irrespective of the series of warnings and calls from Imo stakeholders,” the LP candidate says.
However, he says he is not perturbed by the results.
He reveals that he has plans to reclaim the mandate his people have given to him.
The LP candidate also accused the APC of violence during the election.
