APGA, YPP, Join Call for Cancellation of Imo Governorship Election

The Governorship candidates of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Tony Ejiogu and the Young Progressives Party, YPP, Kemdi Opara, on Tuesday, joined the seven days ultimatum, for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to cancel the entire last Saturday’s Imo governorship election.

They said this to newsmen in Owerri while condemning the Imo governorship election, where INEC declared governor Hope Uzodimma of the All Progressives Congress, APC, winner of the election.

Their reasons for the call on the cancellation of the election were the issue of overvoting, hijacking of electoral materials to private homes and thumb among other irregularities.

This is coming just a day after, the governorship candidates of the Labour Party, LP, Senator Athan Achonu and the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Samuel Anyanwu, called for the total cancellation of the Imo governorship election.

According to the APGA’s governorship candidate, Ejiogu, he said: “The election was a bad precedence set, a charade to say the least.

He noted that Restiveness, criminality, and violence pervading cannot continue.

Also speaking, the governorship candidate of the YPP, Opara was of the view that; the “Election was met with Brutal apathy and the declared results are not a reflection of the situation on the ground.