At Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has confirmed that the collation of Abia State governorship election results will resume on Wednesday (today) in the state.
PREMIUM TIMES reported that the Commission has, on Friday, ordered the suspension of the collation of the results of the governor of Obingwa Local Government Area of the country over the alleged attack and invasion of local government offices by suspected thugs in the area.
But the Head of Voter Education and Publicity, Rebecca Jim, on Tuesday, said the collection would resume on Wednesday at 4:00pm at the State Collection Center located inside the INEC office in Umuahia, the state capital. a report by Channels Television.
Mrs. Jim told the television station that the Returning Officer and Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Owerri, Nnenna Oti, and the State Administrative Secretary, Clement Oha, who were invited to the INEC headquarters Abuja over the environmental controversy resulting from Obingwa Council Area were on their way back to the state to complete the process .
It is unclear, at this time, if the commission changed the results submitted from the region.
Meanwhile, PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the Labor Party (LP) candidate for governor in the country, Alex Otti, led after the collation of the results of the gubernatorial election on Friday from 16 of the 17 local government areas of the country.
There are 17 local government areas in the country.
This newspaper also reported that after collating the results in the 16 council areas, Mr. Otti was leading with 172,246 votes, while Okey Ahiwe of the PDP polled with a total of 78,628 votes to second.
The margin difference between LP and PDP candidates is 93,618 votes.
The result from Obingwa Council Area is the only result still awaited to announce the winner of the sport.
The total number of registered voters in Obingwa Local Government Area is 157,390, according to data obtained from INEC.
However, only 154,966 voters collected their Permanent Voter Cards for the elections in the region, according to the commission’s records.
In Saturday’s governorship poll in the council area, only 26,845 voters were accredited to exercise in the area.
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