INEC officials who appeared before the Delta state Election tribunal
sitting in Asaba the state capital, yesterday August 26th, told members
of the tribunal that after the
April 11th
governorship elections had been concluded, it was discovered that the
state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa who was declared winner of the election,
had more number of votes than the number of accredited voters during the
April 14th governorship election.
According to Premium Times, two INEC officials, Assistant Director, ICT Department from Abuja
headquarters and Chief Planning Officer, Delta State office, tendered the accreditation report of the
April 11 election before the tribunal on the instance of the APC its
candidate, Emerhor Otega who is challenging the election results.
The INEC staff told the tribunal that the card readers recorded no sustained
failure during the governorship election in Delta state and accredited
numbers of voters as at
April 29th was 709,000 and at the expiration of
the shutting down of data upload, the final tally was 715,393. However on
April 13,
Delta State INEC had put the figure of accredited
voters at 1,017,796, exceeding actual accreditation number revealed by
the admitted report obtained from INEC central server which collates
data real time during accreditation from the various polling units.
Delta state returning officer Bio Nyananyo while announcing the governorship results, said the PDP candidate polled 724,680
votes, which translated to 14,980 votes higher than actual number of
accredited voters.
