Agbo accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of using the local government vigilantes to intimidate LP supporters in the constituency.
By Jeffrey Agbo
The National Secretary of Labour Party (LP), Umar Farouk, has described the House of Representatives re-run election in Igboeze/Udenu Federal Constituency as a sham and called for a total cancellation of the exercise in the Federal Constituency.
Umar, who led an LP monitoring team to polling stations involved in the by- elections, told journalists that due process has not been followed, accreditation has been compromised, result sheets have been hijacked, BIVAS machines disregarded and voters not allowed to exercise their right to vote.
The National Secretary, who addressed the press in company of the LP House of Representatives candidate, Dennis Agbo, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately cancel elections in areas where illegalities have been reported.
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In his own comments, Agbo also called for the immediate and total cancellation of the supplementary election.
He accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of using the local government vigilantes to intimidate LP supporters in the constituency.
Agbo said that LP members were chased away from polling booths by the local vigilantes.
He said that it was unfortunate that officials of INEC are now taking instructions from PDP officials and allowing voting to take place in private houses.