The Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has in its custody, results from 17 out of
the 23 local government areas (LGA) where the governorship election held in
Rivers state.
This was disclosed in a statement
issued by Festus Okoye, INEC’s director of information and voter education
committee.
Okoye said the commission would
issue detailed timelines and activities for the completion of the election on
Wednesday.
He said a decision on the
election was taken at a meeting where the commission considered the report of
the fact-finding committee set up to assess the situation in Rivers where
electoral process was suspended.
On March 10, INEC suspended all
electoral processes in the state as a result of violence and widespread
disruption of collation of results.
“The governorship and state
assembly elections took place in most polling units and results were
announced,” part of the statement read.
“That the results from 17 local
governments out of 23 are available and are in the commission’s custody.
“That the declaration and returns
for 21 state constituencies out of 32 were made prior to the suspension.
“That collation centres were
invaded by some soldiers and armed gangs resulting in the intimidation and
unlawful arrest of election officials thereby disrupting the collation
process.”
Okoye said INEC was committed to
expeditious completion of the collation process where results of the elections
had been announced.
He added that INEC will engage
the security agencies at national level and the inter-agency consultative
committee at the state level to demand neutrality and professionalism of
security personnel in order to secure a peaceful environment for the completion
of the elections.
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