* Alleges PDP, INEC collusion
The Labour Party (LP), on Saturday, described the House of Representatives re-run election in Igbo-Eze/Udenu Federal constituency of Enugu State, as a sham, and called for a total cancellation of the exercise.
The party’s National Secretary, Umar Farouk, who led its monitoring team to polling stations involved in the by-elections on Saturday, told journalists that due process was not followed.
He said that accreditation was compromised, result sheets hijacked, and BVAS machines disregarded, while the electorate were not allowed to exercise their right to vote.
Farouk, while addressing journalists in the company of the party’s House of Representatives candidate, Dennis Agbo, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately cancel elections in areas where illegalities were reported.
In his remarks, Dennis Agbo also called for the immediate and total cancellation of the supplementary election. He pointedly accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of using the local government vigilante to intimidate LP supporters.
Agbo claimed that LP members were chased away from polling booths by the local vigilantes, alleging further that INEC officials took instructions from PDP officials and allowed voting to take place in private houses.
