Amaechi Loses Big As Jega Refuses To Cancel Rivers Election

Prof. Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC has refused the petition filed by Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state and the All Progressives Congress, APC for the cancellation the polls in Rivers state.

Speaking on the Rivers election, Jega said, "Sunday morning, I received a petition from APC demanding for the cancellation & rescheduling of elections''.

''I circulated this memo to the Comm. We reviewed it and set up a 3 man Committee to Rivers & they returned this morning with their observations. There were a number of points as to why the Comm should cancel/reschedule elections:1)No elections 2)No result sheets 3)Substitution of officials"

''We cannot establish any cancellation or substitution of results and we sent a list of collation officers to the state. Officials fail to show up to work for several reasons and it is up to the REC to substitute from the pool of officials they have"

''We do not believe the allegations are substantial enough to require the cancellation/rescheduling of the elections in Rivers. The decison of the Commision is that we will take the results of the elections in Rivers state".

''We have taken measures to make sure that reoccurrences do not occur in the future".

See votes breakdown from Rivers state: 


AA: 1066
AD: 1104
ACPN:525
ADC:1031
APA:513
APC:69,238
CPP:577
HOPE:542
KOWA:2274 
NCP:565
PDP:1,487,075
PPN:492 
UDP:303 
UPP:156

VALID VOTES:1,565,461
VOTES CAST:1,584,768 
REJECTED VOTES:19,307