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The governorship flag bearer of the All Progressives Grand
Alliance (APGA), in Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has alleged that there are
plans to rig next Friday’s supplementary governorship election in the state.

Mr Okorocha who made the disclosure in a news briefing in
Owerri, the Imo State capital, hinged his allegations on video clips obtained
with spywares deployed into the field by his party.

In the recording which had vivid pictures of some government
officials addressing observers and another tearing up ballot papers voted
against the PDP in Nkwerre council area of the state, Mr Okorocha lamented the
inaction of the law enforcement agencies in the state.

The evidence

Another clip from Oguta council area showed where some hoodlums
held youth corps members hostage in a bush while thumb-printing of the ballot
papers went on.

Mr Okorocha who was flanked by Martin Agbaso, the zonal vice
chairman of APGA, Chris Ejike Uche and his deputy, Mr Jude Agbaso also
displayed fully thumb-printed fake ballot papers recovered last Sunday by
soldiers.

Lamenting the desperation to rig the Friday supplementary
election by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the APGA governorship
candidate, while noting his party’s preparedness for the election listed
conditions for their participation in the supplementary poll on Friday.

Mr Okorocha demanded that the Resident Electoral Commissioner
(REC) in the state, Selina Oko should be removed and Austin Okojie, one of the
four RECs deployed for the make-up election, dropped for his role in the
subversion of APGA’s mandate to govern Imo State in 2007.

He also demanded that no staff of the Federal University of
Technology, Owerri (FUTO) recruited as INEC adhoc staff should take part in the
collation of the Friday election result.