Voting process
The Head of INEC’s Voters Education and Publicity Department in Enugu, Mr Rex Achumie, on Tuesday revealed that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is “100 per cent ready” for the rescheduled Enugu South Urban State Constituency re-run election.
Achumie noted that adequate arrangements had been made for the exercise scheduled for Wednesday, February 14.
The Head of Voters Education and Publicity Department said that the commission would be receiving the sensitive materials from the CBN in the presence of the political parties and other electoral stakeholders by 3 p.m. on Tuesday.
He said that the sensitive materials would be kept at state INEC Headquarters, Enugu for distribution before 8 am for the poll.
According to him, the issue of result sheets will be taken care of and there will be no mistake again.Achumie said: “We will also have effective monitoring and supervision as the bulk of our top management staff will be in the field to ensure that all went well.
“We are calling on the electorate in the eight polling units in the Uwani axis of Enugu metropolis to come out en masse to cast their votes for their preferred candidates.”
The rerun election could not take place on February 3 due to the lack of result sheets at the polling units causing the exercise to be postponed.
Mr. Emeka Ngene of LP and his PDP opponent, Mr Sam Ngene, would slug it out for the 4,618 votes in Ward 5, where the rescheduled re-run election would take place.
INEC declared Emeka, who polled 5,862 votes in the March 18, 2023 election winner and issued him the Certificate of Return.
