Despite video evidence, INEC disowns official caught with pre-filled result sheet in Enugu 

 

The Independent National Electoral Commission has disowned one of its officials caught with a pre-filled polling unit result sheet in the rerun election in Enugu. 

According to INEC, in a statement on X, the said official was unknown to the commission. 

The unsigned statement reads: “Our attention has been drawn to some fake narratives circulating on the social media that a certain employee of the Commission was caught in Enugu State with a pre-filled result sheet for the rerun election held today. However, the said individual is not an employee of INEC. He is unknown to the Commission. The public should disregard the report.”

But in a video, the official who was beaten to pulp for allegedly coming with pre-filled result sheets,  was the presiding officer at the Igogoro, Ozzi Ward 2 Unit 004 in the Igboeze North/Udenu Federal Constituency election. 

In the pre-filled result sheet, 443 votes were allocated to the Peoples Democratic Party candidate (PDP), 31 votes to All Progressives Congress (APC) and 15 votes to Labour Party candidates for the 

INEC is conducting the re-run election in the constituency following the ruling of Appeal Court which cancelled the election in some polling units over the non-inclusion of the logo of the All Progressives Congress in the Form EC8A.

However, despite INEC officials arriving late in many polling units for the elections, INEC polling officers came without results or pre-filled results especially in polling units that have a great number of voters.

At Igogoro, Ozzi Ward 2 Unit 004, the presiding officer was lucky to have left with his life after the voters discovered the already filled result sheet even before the commencement of voting.

It was learnt that the INEC presiding officer who gave his name Mr Ronald Ugwudani from Igbo-Etiti Council area, said the pre-filled result sheet was given to him from the local government by INEC.

Trouble for Ugwundani started when the angry voters asked him to show them result sheets following the news that so many other polling units have no result sheets.

According to eyewitnesses, Ugwundani now told the voters that his SPO was coming with it. Not convinced irate voters pounced on him and he brought out the result sheets from his bag.

“I told them that the SPO will bring it, so they forced me to search my bag, I don’t know that the result sheet is inside my bag. I showed them the result sheet and they wanted to kill me,” the INEC Staff was overheard narrating in a video.

The state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Dr Chukwuemeka Chukwu, had told journalists on Friday in Enugu that the commission had deployed over 700 staff and ad hoc staff as well as 700 armed security men for the re-run.

 

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