Anambra Central: We’ll go ahead with re-run – INEC

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said yesterday that it would go ahead with the conduct of the Anambra Central Senatorial re-run, which it earlier scheduled for January 13, 2018.

Anambra State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Dr Nkwachkwu Orji told Vanguard that the commission had commenced the training of adhoc personnel as part of preparations for the exercise.

Anambra Central Senatorial District had been without a senator since 2015 when the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu sacked Mrs. Uche Ekwunife and asked INEC to conduct rerun election in the district within 90 days. It also disqualified Ekwunife from participating in the rerun.

PDP later challenged its exclusion in the rerun at the Federal High Court, Abuja and the court granted judgment in its favour.

However, the candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief Victor Umeh and the party insisted that PDP would not field a candidate in the rerun since it was on its instance the election was nullified on December 7, 2015.

On November 20, 2017, the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja ruled in favour of Umeh and ordered INEC to conduct the rerun election within 90 days of the judgment, excluding the PDP from contesting in the rerun.

INEC subsequently fixed the rerun for January 13, 2018.

Vanguard, January 05, 2017

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