No irregularities in Rivers governorship polls –Jega

Speaking at the Civil Rights Situation Roomý held in Abuja, Jega stated that the commission on getting the petition of irregularities in Rivers State sent three national commissioners to investigate it.“We have no power to cancel elections results once returns have been made. On the petition against election irregularities in Rivers State, the commission sent […]

Speaking at the Civil Rights Situation Roomý held in Abuja, Jega stated that the commission on getting the petition of irregularities in Rivers State sent three national commissioners to investigate it.
“We have no power to cancel elections results once returns have been made. On the petition against election irregularities in Rivers State, the commission sent three national commissioners to the state to investigate it. Some people don’t want elections to hold, they are the ones calling for cancellation.
“We investigated the allegation of fake result sheets in Rivers, our reports showed that there was nothing like that,” he stated.
The INEC boss further stated that the commission is already in partnership with the Police and the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to prosecute electoral offenders. He noted that one offender had already been prosecuted in Adamawa State by being sentenced to six months imprisonment for being in illegal possession of Permanent Voters Card.
He however called on whoever has evidence as it relates to electoral offences to bring such to the commission, with a promise that such will be investigated and subsequently tried in court. On the planned supplementary elections in Abia State, Jega said that the elections will hold only in the wards where election was cancelled and not in the entire three local government areas.
Jega further revealed that about 20,000 permanent voters card were not produced before the election was conducted because the producer was arrested by the police over the allegation that he gave the password to a political party.