ANALYSIS: INEC, PDP’s lead and the burden of inconclusive elections
elections. The last, Rivers, governed by Nigeria’s largest opposition party, PDP, has simply been halted with the electoral commission, INEC, unsure of how to proceed.
In the first ballot, the PDP candidate, Ademola Adeleke, won majority votes of 254,698 votes while Gboyega Oyetola of the APC came a close second with 254,345 votes. In Adamawa, for instance, PDP’s Ahmadu Fintiri got 367,471 votes, while the APC’s Jibrila Bindow, the incumbent governor, got 334,995 votes. The margin of 32,476 votes is less than the cancelled votes of 40,988.
“National interests supersedes all other interest. The questions we should be asking now is what does the law say, have INEC complied with the law? The House of Representatives on Wednesday debated the spate of inconclusive elections recorded in the just concluded polls.Sunday Karimi who moved the motion said prior to the 2015 governorship election in Kogi, there were very few cases of inconclusive elections and reruns.
“The commission also cancels polls if there are violent disruptions of the process. We are going to redeploy and conclude elections in those areas.
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